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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!hubcap
  3. From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
  4. Subject: Re: Related note: was ``Ultrix ENHANCED vs "normal" UNIX passwords''
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec15.174516.21739@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  6. Organization: Clemson University
  7. References: <1992Dec4.143408.25483@hubcap.clemson.edu> <Bz8LzI.H43@alsvid.nr.une.edu.au> <1992Dec14.172940.4214@hubcap.clemson.edu> <2B2D261F.23293@news.service.uci.edu>
  8. Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:45:16 GMT
  9. Lines: 19
  10.  
  11. iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
  12. >If it's any consolation to you, using Sun's shadow password files doesn't
  13. >work with NIS (YP) either.  There's a semi-good reason too:  why bother
  14. >having shadow password files if anyone can use ypcat to get a copy of
  15. >the file with the encrypted passwords in it?
  16.  
  17. It's no consolation :-). It apparently doesn't work anywhere, so you can't
  18. say that if it did work, then you'd be able to get the encrypted passwords.
  19. If I wrote it (I'm busy this afternoon, maybe tomorrow :-), ypcat passwd
  20. would get you:
  21.  
  22. joe:*:10:20:Joe Blow:/usr/users/jblow:/dev/null
  23.  
  24. ...not:
  25.  
  26. joe:123456789abcd:10:20:Joe Blow:/usr/users/jblow:/dev/null
  27.  
  28.  
  29. -Mike
  30.