At 19:57 -0800 1/8/2002, Satya wrote:
>Going the other way -- decrypting the encrypted string -- is very,
>very, difficult.
It's not all that hard, hence shadow passwords, and also different methods
of encrypting. In the mid-90s, a high end desktop machine was said to be
able to produce a workin
On Jan 8, 2002 at 14:40, Tim Legg wrote:
>Is there any reason the password must be a "*"? It seams that this could
>be a security risk. Couldn't anybody just login as mailman and know that
>the password is "*" and do all kinds of mean things?
As JCL says, that's a flag, not a password. /etc/pa
