Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO Unix password scheme sucks! Message-ID: Date: 22 Dec 90 02:00:25 GMT Expires: 1/5/91 References: <36535@cup.portal.com> <36600@cup.portal.com> <662@hitachi.uucp> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 19 kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: > The point of my original posting was this: If you're going to use > passwords AT ALL then why go with a silly, unsecure one? 1) Because you want to let people FTP into your system; and FTP insists on having a password for a user account. (In some implementations of ftpd, anonymous ftp is broken). 2) Because your Unix prompts for a password even if the password is blank, and you want to set up anonymous UUCP. (Some implementations of UUCP have trouble sending blank lines in the chat script). The long-term solution for both of these is to fix the software, but sometimes you have to get some work done while you're waiting for the fixed software to arrive. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz