From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 0:15:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522A737B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15mrs6-00005S-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:15:43 +0000 Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 57D06BD67; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:00:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:00:00 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: free bsd Subject: Re: reading password Message-ID: <20010928090000.B5576@raggedclown.net> References: <017e01c14787$44091ed0$a50410ac@olmct.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <017e01c14787$44091ed0$a50410ac@olmct.net>; from AndreC@Axxs.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0400, Andre` Niel Cameron wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to display a users password incase they forget > versus using passwd to set them a new password? > > Regards, > Andre` C. > Technical Support > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is this a serious question ? It takes all of 5 seconds to generate them a new one. A brute force attack might take a few decades. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message