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From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords and salts
Keywords: passwd, password, salt
Message-ID: <946@targon.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:02:29 GMT
References: <943@targon.UUCP> <85606@linus.UUCP> <1990Jan8.232650.6615@i88.isc.com> <1990Jan15.030347.16562@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Jan15.030347.16562@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  Excuse me, but how does mailing the code to root on one machine prevent the
>recipient of the code from copying the code to another machine and compiling
>and executing it there?

It will not, however one should think that being root on one machine
will result in more responsible behaviour on other machines.
You can always make sure only to mail something to root's of sufficiently
'big' machines (being sysadm on a company or university machine with
> 20 users results in more sysadm-ier behaviour than being sysadm of
your own xenix AT :-).

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