Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com> Cc: Dylan Northrup <northrup@ucet.ufl.edu>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009140849.27816F-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <343D4372.848714B0@ix.netcom.com>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jerry Hicks wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jerry Hicks wrote: > > > > > > What kind of passwords does AIX use? If it DES, you're set. > > > > > > My guess would be Kerberos, considering its origin... > > > > Kerberos is an authentication scheme not a password encryption format > > (in fact, I believe that Kerberos even uses DES for its internal password > > lists, but that is another matter). > > > > Tom > > Yeah, but doesn't the authentication scheme determine the encryption > policy? No, kerberos is a black box. If you happen to use that passwords are managed by kerberos, and only kerberos. What does /etc/passwd have in it? Does it have encrypted passwords? Tom
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