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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
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jerry Hicks wrote:

> 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?

  No, kerberos is a black box.  If you happen to use that passwords are
managed by kerberos, and only kerberos.

  What does /etc/passwd have in it?  Does it have encrypted passwords?

Tom