From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 12:37:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20770 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:37:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.mtu.edu (news.mtu.edu [141.219.70.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20759 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:37:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwmaurer@mtu.edu) Received: from mtu.edu (root@mtu.edu [141.219.70.1]) by news.mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07551; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:37:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pace1.cts.mtu.edu (pace1.cts.mtu.edu [141.219.52.51]) by mtu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12992; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:37:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mwmaurer@localhost) by pace1.cts.mtu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/mturelay-1.2) id PAA06404; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:40:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Maurer Message-Id: <199810101940.PAA06404@pace1.cts.mtu.edu> Subject: Re: your mail To: jargo@liib.ee (Jargo Liib) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:40:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <001a01bdf483$21a693e0$120107d4@jargolii> from "Jargo Liib" at Oct 10, 98 10:21:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know Jargo Liib said this..... > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01BDF49C.46983E60 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-4" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello gurus, > > I have a problem concerning one of my users -- the unfortunate = > fellow has forgot his password and asked me to look it up for him. = > Becouse I'm the root, I can do this but I don't know how. Can you please = > help me, please?? > > Jargo Umm, you may be root, but unless you can intuitively see what is password is via encoded text, you can't really look it up (unless you wanted to take the time and run a crack program). It is all very much easier just to have him choose a new password, and you set it for him... -- Mark Maurer markm@dct.com Programmer: Digital Magic Interactive mwmaurer@mtu.edu Senior, Michigan Tech University "The OOP folk think they are about to inherit the world, while I am becoming increasingly convinced they are becoming obsolete" -- Bob Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message