Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding what user's previous password was. Message-ID: <199906092223.SAA83399@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906092216550.69164-100000@freja.webgiro.com> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Jun 9, 1999 10:18: 3 pm"
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Andrzej Bialecki recently said: > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > > It is gone. > > ..or it's still in /var/backups/master.passwd.bak However it's encoded. To prove the the user that it had not changed you'd neet to take the password the user thinks he had an encrypt it with the same salt - otherwise you have one chance of 4096 of them matching. -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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