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Article #635Re: Re: weird bug with passwd and /dev/syscon
From: dpb
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1987 07:17
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1987 07:17
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Within Article <538@ambush.UUCP> kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes: +In article <260@slxsys.co.uk> jpp@slxsys.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes: +>",.." in /etc/passwd ! I hope you dont allow dial'ins now you have told +>the world ! + +That is ridiculous all password fields under 13 characters are void - +that means if you put a password entry of NOLOGIN you cannot login +under that username. Only if the encrypted password is exactly 13 +characters long will it be accepted as an encrypted password. + + Kim Chr. Madsen. Ok, Kim your right for BSD and USG up until System III, but from System III on and their mutations the encrypted password field has a subfield comma delimited that is used for password aging. It is incoded in radix64 and the first digit is how often the user must change their password the second digit is minimum number of weeks between password changes. -- ################################################################################ Thanks, Darryl Baker ihnp4!tellab5!dpb
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!tellab5!dpb From: dpb@tellab5.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Re: weird bug with passwd and /dev/syscon Message-ID: <794@tellab5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 02:17:50 EST Article-I.D.: tellab5.794 Posted: Mon Nov 2 02:17:50 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 01:15:32 EST References: <298@boole.acc.virginia.edu> <260@slxsys.co.uk> <538@ambush.UUCP> Reply-To: dpb@tellab5.UUCP (Darryl Baker) Organization: Tellabs Inc., Lisle, Il. Lines: 24