Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Passwords in /etc/group Message-ID: <2812@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 23:09:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2812 Posted: Mon Jul 6 23:09:26 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:48:38 EDT References: <5740010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <207@macom1.UUCP> <3671@cisunx.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <3671@cisunx.UUCP> by nk233514@cisunx.UUCP (Deus): +--------------- | In article <207@macom1.UUCP> michael@macom1.UUCP (Michael Mullins) writes: | >Once the password is assigned, I "vi /etc/passwd" and yank the password | One thing I'd like to pas along i to use vipw, not vi, to edit the passwd | file. +--------------- 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?) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ncoast Public Access UN*X, +1 216 781 6201 -- we have alt.all (email for info) aXcess Company cbosgd \ 6615 Center St. #A1-105 {ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc > !ncoast!allbery Mentor, OH 44060-4101 {well,ihnp4,pyramid}!hoptoad / +1 216 974 9210 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu