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From: cgh018@tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords and salts
Message-ID: <852@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 12:54:56 GMT
References: <1974@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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From article <1974@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, by andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews):
> From article <85606@linus.UUCP>, by ccel@chance.uucp (CCEL):
>> To be responsible, I would be reluctant to distribute the source to
>> anyone who is NOT a system administrator on their machine.
> 
> Hmm, so how do you propose to check this? Will you believe anyone who just
> says "I am a system administrator" in their message?
> 
Good point.  If <85606@linus.UUCP> is set on doing this then the least he
can do is to only send to a root (or superuser equivalent) address.  Still
doesn't insure true security, and that superuser may abuse this on some other
system, it not now then later.  I also agree with an earlier posting - that
this is a fairly trivial program to write.

Cal