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- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watserv1!news
- From: Biff
- Subject: masked entries in password file
- Message-ID: <C1CDrC.3C4@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: biff@inet.edu
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:57:11 GMT
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- Hello,
- A simple question that I'm sure someone out there can answer...
- Some systems have only a '*' in the encrypted password field, I think this
- is because they have an echoed password system or something like that.....
- I think there's a port you have to connect to locally to query for the
- encrypted password or something like that to get a higher security rating
- for the entire system..... Could some one please explain this to the net
- (interest only). I am quite curious as to how this works and I can't be
- bothered to muck around with the ports an shit if someone already knows
- how it works and what the general protocol is....
- Cheers......
-