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- From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
- Subject: Re: Dialup Passwords
- Message-ID: <BxKo1B.7sC@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Summary: Use crypt, or get dpasswd PD pgm.
- Keywords: dialup passwords, 3B1, dpasswd
- Sender: Dave Ihnat
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <3059@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:05:34 GMT
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- In article <3059@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> nosilla@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Andrew J. Templin) writes:
- >
- >Ok. I am looking through UNIX System Security by Farrow (1991), and
- >I notice that System V R 3.2 has the ability to make a certain port
- >more secure via a dialup password.
- > ...
- >How do I set the password for this? I can find nothing in the documentation
- >(just like Farrow said), and I am at a loss on how to do this.
-
- You can, as has been suggested, write a program using crypt. If you don't have
- crypt, you can do (crudely) the same thing by creating a dummy user, setting
- the password, saving the encrypted string in the d_passwd file, and so on.
-
- Or, you can get the dpasswd utility written, I believe, by Lenny Tropiano for
- the 3B1. It works just fine for other versions of Unix that support external
- security passwords, and allows more mnemonic maintenance of the facility.
- (Again, though, you need the security package to compile/link it.)
-
- Dave Ihnat
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