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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