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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: DIY Shadow Passwords (was Re: Crack Modifications I'd Like to See: Comments on two breakins.)
- Message-ID: <1992Feb7.125426.7909@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: 7 Feb 92 12:54:26 GMT
- References: <1992Feb6.173904.14741@aber.ac.uk> <1992Feb7.053507.16527@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Feb7.064619.6116@iWarp.intel.com>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
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- In article <1992Feb7.064619.6116@iWarp.intel.com> merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
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- >This is silly. Get Emacs or another suitable binary editor. Edit
- >your /bin/login and /bin/passwd and /bin/chfn binaries, replacing
- >/etc/passwd with /etc/p/sswd. Create the directory /etc/p, chmod 700,
- >mv /etc/passwd /etc/p/sswd. Now write a cronjob that scruffs
- >/etc/p/sswd putting the sanitized data into /etc/passwd. No
- >recompilation necessary.
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- Don't forget ftpd and rexecd . On a system which uses
- dbm files you should also start building the dbm files in the new
- directory.
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- Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
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