How to prevent an nidump of the passwd's?

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 17:49

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Other than making the 'nidump' command unavailable via removing the read and  
execute permissions (which really wouldn't help if someone were to get the  
command from somewhere else), how can the password data be protected from being  
read by just anyone on the system?  That is, what needs to be changed so that  
the passwords come out either with asterisks for where the real encrypted  
password would be or just making the entire output from 'nidump passwd /'  
unavailable?

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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