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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Encryption of passwords
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.040516.21701@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
- References: <1992Dec14.220949.26824@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 04:05:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.220949.26824@newshost.lanl.gov>, rgt@beta.lanl.gov (Richard Thomsen) writes:
- |> I was told that there is a patch to 386bsd to allow the passwords to be
- |> encrypted, but I have not found this in unofficial. Where do I get the
- |> patches to do this? Or what files in unofficial are they in?
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- DES software is on the munitions list, and therefore not distributable from
- the US to other countries, even if it came from outside the US in the first
- place:
-
- "DES Hotel -- DES checks in, but it doesn't check out"
-
- There are pointers in the installation notes to the sites (outside the US)
- that DES can be ftp'ed from, as well as in the source area for the fake
- "libcrypt". There are sites in the US where it can be gotten (such as
- gatekeeper.dec.com); installation is pretty straight forward.
-
- As long as you don't let out your root password, the shadow file will keep
- your machine secure (and if you let out your root password, DES won't keep
- your machine secure).
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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- Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial
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