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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: Related note: was ``Ultrix ENHANCED vs "normal" UNIX passwords''
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:26:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.143408.25483@hubcap.clemson.edu> <Bz8LzI.H43@alsvid.nr.une.edu.au> <1992Dec14.172940.4214@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec14.172940.4214@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
- > I think you should go back and have a look at the documentation
- >for security on ultrix. You have missed the point. Switch your mind back on
- >and read it again. The deadly, unacceptable and glaring baggage that makes
- >ENHANCED and UPGRADE unusable for me is the fact that it won't work
- >with YP. My perception is that there are other differences too, but I see
- >no reason to stress my pea-brain with reading any more man pages since
- >no YP is a show stopper for me.
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- If it's any consolation to you, using Sun's shadow password files doesn't
- work with NIS (YP) either. There's a semi-good reason too: why bother
- having shadow password files if anyone can use ypcat to get a copy of
- the file with the encrypted passwords in it?
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