From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 9 22:51:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA25574 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA25559 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA09590 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:51:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA22666; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:48:13 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971010074813.WR25496@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:48:13 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password question References: <199710100336.VAA02922@obie.softweyr.ml.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710100336.VAA02922@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Oct 9, 1997 21:36:06 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wes Peters wrote: > It's been a while since I worked with AIX, so bear with me on this. If > I remember correctly, the true source for the password entries on AIX is > in a file somewhere in the /etc/secure directory. /etc/security/passwd: j: password = 7iQAjV5h2mof. lastupdate = 830766071 flags = And yes, the passwords are DES-encrypted there, i've just checked. (Don't attempt to run crack over the above. For one, i doubt my password could be guessed with a dictionary, but even then, i've toggled a number of characters here as well. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)