From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 10 22:18:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA01140 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA01135 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@xmission.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA04268; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:21:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 23:21:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710110521.XAA04268@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password question In-Reply-To: <19971010074813.WR25496@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199710100336.VAA02922@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19971010074813.WR25496@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently blathered: % 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. J. Wunsch replied: > /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. :) Gee, my memory was pretty good. I used to have nightmares about these things, until I sat down one day and wrote a "stanza parser" for our library. That made me appreciate how and why they did it the way they did. My brother, who now works on AIX professionally at Motorola, says my routine must have been better than the IBM-supplied ones; he hates them. Perhaps my pain threshold was just higher. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com