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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: ARE THEY ABLE TO CRACK UNIX PASSWORDS???
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>are you keeping up with revisions?

Not well enough.

>there are ways of getting in that bypass the passowrds..
>we fix them as we find them..
>so you need to keep up.
>
I admit I still don't know how to keep up with revisions...

>what version are you running?
>
I'm running 2.2.2 RELEASE on most machines.

>are  /etc/master.passwd and /etc/spwd.db
>only readable by root?
>
Yes. 

>check the sanity of all suid binaries...
>get the 2.2.5 CD and run the upgrade option.
>
Will the upgrade work on a 2.2.2 machine?