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- From: chandave@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.edu (Davy Chan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP (IBM) telnet login, passwd file
- Date: 13 Dec 92 02:42:41
- Organization: WSOM CSG, CWRU, Cleve. Ohio
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <CHANDAVE.92Dec13024241@wasted.SOM.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec04.160809.5941@ans.net> <1992Dec7.212403.27592@ldp.com>
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- In-reply-to: rolfe@ldp.com's message of Mon, 7 Dec 1992 21:24:03 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec7.212403.27592@ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
-
- **>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- **>From: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
- **>References: <1992Dec04.160809.5941@ans.net>
- **>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 21:24:03 GMT
-
- **>In article <1992Dec04.160809.5941@ans.net> db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes:
- **>> In article <723418461rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- **>rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
-
- **>> >In \TCPIP\BIN there is a replacement
- **>> >LOGINUNX.EXE for LOGIN.EXE which uses a traditional Unix /etc/passwd
- **>> >file. I can't find anything in the manuals about how it should look
- **>> >like. How in particular do I have to set the passwords? Encrypted? If
- **>> >so, how??? Did anyone get this working?
-
- **>> Just as you said - it uses a traditional Unix /etc/passwd file. So go
- **>> to your nearest Unix system where you have a userid that has the
- **>appropriate
- **>> password set, and copy your /etc/passwd entry from that system.
-
- **>> I don't believe there are any tools in the package for forming this
- **>> file directly. It's pretty much provided as a convenience for users that
- **>> also have Unix systems around and want to maintain a consistent password
- **>> file.
-
- **>I don't understand how this can work if there's not a compatible crypt
- **>command on the OS/2 box. Doesn't passwd use crypt? Does every Unix box use
- **>compatible password encryption? I don't think so.
-
-
- All encrypted passwords created by a passwd that originated from Unix are
- the same. They follow the same basic encryption algorithm and the same
- storage of the salt key with the encrypted password. This is why
- programs such as Crack for the Unix boxes can function. If people really
- want, I can find my copy of passwd that works on my OS/2 machine and
- make it anonymous ftp'able as well as submitting it to comp.binaries.os2.
-
- See ya...
-
- d.c.
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