Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!ken From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX - the "don't worry about it" operating system? Message-ID: <464@sol.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 10:29:39 EDT Article-I.D.: sol.464 Posted: Mon Jul 6 10:29:39 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 03:07:47 EDT References: <1089@killer.UUCP> <130@ssvs.gsfc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap) Distribution: world Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 14 |How do you propose to set initial passwords without having them in the clear |at some point in time? As for finding the file, presumably it is protected I once used a student registration system in which a student would meet their TA, who verified their student ID. The TA then started a registration program and handed the keyboard to the student. This program prompted the student for info and asked for a suitable password which was then immediately encrypted. The password existed in cleartext only in the student's head and while being entered. Later the collected info was merged into the password file. I don't know why online registration isn't used more. It would reduce password leaks and provide a guided first encounter with the machine. Ken