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In article <BxBIwK.97H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>The NeXT password file is not shadowed accessible without even having an  
>account on the system.  You can do remote nidumps of someone else's password  
>file.  Unfortunately making one's password information secure seems to be hard  
>(if not impossible) without changing a MAJOR portion of the operating system  
>(or at least this is what I was told by people on comp.sys.next.* when I asked  
>a similar question).

You can easily fix the problem with remote nidumps (trusted_networks), but it
would take some sort of access listing built right in to NetInfo to change
the greater problem.

>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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