on the password, and you cannot have them break.
Lock your computer room doors people.
Ciao, Dave
-Original Message-
From: Mike Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 15 April 2004 7:36 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Now: Why I left my password blank... RE: su not
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:52:06AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> It is next to impossible to easily re-create the password from
> the encrypted form saved in the password database. getent only returns
> the encrypted version.
I hate to nitpick, but passwords are hashed, not encrypted... apart from
tha
On Thursday 15 April 2004 11:36, Don Gould wrote:
> I think the subject like says it all really...
Yes, and what the subject says is that you have hi-jacked the thread and
turned what was developing into a very interesting lesson in diagnosing a
problem into a sequence of beat-my-chest rantings,
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:36, Don Gould wrote:
> Reading this threed I was just left with the reality check that dispite over
> 20 years playing with and using computers I haven't got a hope in hell of
> keeping you guys out of my system!
Well, if you will use Microsoft ... :-)
The number of remote
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:36:12 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Questions:
>
> What is 'getent' ? It's a tool to do wat exactly? I can sort of see what
> it did, from what I can see it made a complete mocaray of security.
getent --help
getent --help
Usage: getent [OPTION...] data
I think the subject like says it all really...
How secure is linux v's how much we just leave each others systems alone?
Reading this threed I was just left with the reality check that dispite over
20 years playing with and using computers I haven't got a hope in hell of
keeping you guys out of m
