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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:00:00 +0200
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        free bsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: reading password
Message-ID:  <20010928090000.B5576@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <017e01c14787$44091ed0$a50410ac@olmct.net>; from AndreC@Axxs.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0400
References:  <017e01c14787$44091ed0$a50410ac@olmct.net>

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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



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