From owner-freebsd-security Fri Mar 2 0:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA30737B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF0D966EEB; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:15:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:15:23 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: mudman Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/pwd.db Message-ID: <20010302001523.A48384@mollari.cthul.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mudman@R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:13:19AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:13:19AM -0800, mudman wrote: > However, I think pwd.db is encrypted, right? Even then, since remote root No - it's just a binary database for faster access. It doesn't however contain any passwords, being generated from /etc/passwd (spwd.db is the one with the passwords, coming from master.passwd) Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6n1abWry0BWjoQKURArEPAJ9gBBb/ZJbSyRsIIncF76fJI5lpHQCgjFod Q6d6B+M7lVatG2mtHSPBKeA= =B7Bf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message