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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        Dylan Northrup <northrup@ucet.ufl.edu>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: password question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009132958.27816B-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <343D3DD7.DEA0D05B@ix.netcom.com>

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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jerry Hicks wrote:

> >   What kind of passwords does AIX use?  If it DES, you're set.
> 
> My guess would be Kerberos, considering its origin...

  Kerberos is an authentication scheme not a password encryption format
(in fact, I believe that Kerberos even uses DES for its internal password
lists, but that is another matter).

Tom




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