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Re: Hacked! :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harding)
Sat Nov 21 16:05:28 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:08:58 -0800
From: Sean Harding <sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Sean Harding <sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu>
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Ramon Gandia wrote:
> (3) If he does not use shadow passwords, the /etc/passwd
> encryption is easy to break.
Not particularly. Any cracker who values his own time won't bother trying
to decrypt passwd entries. Time is better spent using a dictionary attack
program, such as Crack...
sean
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