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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per G|tterup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: how are password encryped?
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.105055.26178@diku.dk>
Date: 7 Nov 90 10:50:55 GMT
References: <3852@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <918@demott.COM>
Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

=> In article <3852@idunno.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@roof.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
=> >
=> >Speaking of salts, try this on your system:
=> >
=> >ypcat passwd (or cat /etc/passwd) | cut -d: -f2 | cut -c1,2 | sort |
=> >uniq -c | sort -n | tail
=> >

=> OK:
=>    1 TJ
=>    1 b4
=>    1 bx
=>    1 me
=>    1 pt
=>    1 qD
=>    1 qe
=>    1 yz
=>    3 cy
=>   19 NO

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On our system it looks like this:

   3 Vo
   3 WH
   3 Yo
   3 Zo
   3 sX
   3 vL
   3 zF
  10 CL
  19 NO
  22 *

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