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From: nk233514@cisunx.UUCP (Deus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords in /etc/group
Message-ID: <3703@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 20:37:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 20:37:42 1987
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In article <2812@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>
>BSD has "vipw".  Sys3, SysV, Xenix, etc. DON'T.  (Someone want to come up
>with a PD version? --mailed to security@rutgers rather than posted, perhaps.
>It does decrypt passwords, I believe?)
>

Decrypt passwords ? 

I think not since trying to vipw a large passwd file would take alot of CPU 
time.

DES generated passwords ain't that easy to decrypt, right ?

After all, if they were, why would the passwd file be world readable on most
machines ?

Deus