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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: password encoding
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.183525.3907@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:35:25 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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looking at the minix source, it appears to me that the passwords
are encoded into the password file. not encrypted. that is, inverting
the crypt function looks trivial.
is this so? does unix use the same method of encoding the password?

gwoho liu.