From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 19:15:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA21172 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA21166 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (mcquiggi@fraser.sfu.ca [142.58.110.2]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/SFU-2.6H) id TAA19812 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:15:12 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin McQuiggin Received: by fraser.sfu.ca (8.6.12/SFU-2.6C) id DAA05397 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Sun, 24 Mar 1996 03:15:12 GMT Message-Id: <199603240315.DAA05397@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: Re: Passwords To: sysop@gaianet.net (Chad Shackley) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:15:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603231955.LAA12200@mercury.gaianet.net> from "Chad Shackley" at Mar 23, 96 11:54:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The main reason was, people do forget their passwords, and then they ask me > what it is. Rather than telling them to give me another password and > changing it for them, I was curious if there was a way to tell what their > current password was. You can't do this for security reasons. su to root and give them a new one, then have them change it to something else right after they log in. > I email them with that it is; NEVER NEVER NEVER send passwords via email. Email is insecure. You're setting yourself up for a break-in! My two cents... Kevin -- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca