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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To: Khan Khalid M <kmk2@mundania.eng.wayne.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Khan Khalid M wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am tring to learn how the encryption system works...
> I gave a passwd of "aabbcc" and wrote the passwd cryption 
> and then changed it to something else and back again. Then two 
> crypt of the same password was drifferent. I am tring find how 
> does the system check the passwd for user loging on to the system, 
> when encryption are drifferent. Or does it more then one encrypt 
> system ????

don't know 'bout that but...
 
> So where can i find some reading info .. so that i can find 
> how this is working. And also where can i get the code for 
> passwd.c

....you might like to check out your /usr/src/bin dir...


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