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  3. From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
  4. Subject: re: Apollo Password Problem
  5. Message-ID: <5b02ddd2.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
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  7. Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu
  8. Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project
  9. References: <199209060149.AA11370@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
  10. Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:35:09 GMT
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  13. In article <199209060149.AA11370@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>, thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM ((jt) John Thompson) writes:
  14.  
  15.   If you have accounts that have passwords which were
  16.   last changed at 9.7, rather than 10.x, the passwords are different between the
  17.   registry and the /etc/passwd file.  I have no idea why, but I do know that at
  18.   10.x, they changed the encryption to be JLRU, instead of Aegis-like.
  19.  
  20. The encryption was changed.  Obviously, you can't take a password that was
  21. encrypted with the pre-sr10 algorithm and convert it to one that's encrypted
  22. with the sr10 algorithm, without knowing what the clear-text password is.
  23.