From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 10 6:34:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D84581519C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 06:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 3960 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Jan 2000 14:17:17 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:17:17 +0000 From: George Cox To: Irnest Schultz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User Passwords? Message-ID: <20000110141717.A3902@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <00fd01bf5b68$e2e5ca60$853a4092@mikros.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <00fd01bf5b68$e2e5ca60$853a4092@mikros.co.za>; from irnest@mikros.co.za on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:47:43PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10/01 14:47, Irnest Schultz wrote: > Is there a way in which I, as a System Administrator, can read the passwords > of the system users? If you use a password cracking tool, you can find out who is using poorly-chosen passwords. As a sysadmin, you should do this from time to time to ensure that your users are picking not-easily-crackable passwords. > What is backdoor login and how does one do it? How do one crack this > passwords? Can you please help me in this matter? It sounds like you have a lot of reading to do. Start at http://www.securityfocus.com best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message