Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 16:49:54 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Dylan Northrup <northrup@ucet.ufl.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password question Message-ID: <343D4372.848714B0@ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009132958.27816B-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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Tom wrote: > > 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 Yeah, but doesn't the authentication scheme determine the encryption policy?
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