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- From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: passwd security check
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.190827.30077@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:08:27 GMT
- Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
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- Several q`s from a novice:
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- Can somebody point me to a program that will do a security "audit" on the passwd
- file, e.g. reporting (either in a file or as e-mail to the concerned parties)
- when 2 or more accounts have the same password, and other "holes" that would
- not be found by crack?
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- R.E. crack- is there a good reason not to simply build a file consisting of the
- crypted and uncrypted entries for an entire dictionary? this would be twice
- as large as just a word dictionary, but much faster than re-crypting...
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- what is the meaning of accounts in passwd that have simply * as their password?
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