Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet!davis From: davis@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Student suspended for distributing /etc/passwd Keywords: green fuzzy bananas Message-ID: <1991Jun12.140807.16743@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 12 Jun 91 14:08:07 GMT Article-I.D.: usenet.1991Jun12.140807.16743 References: <31124@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun12.112633.14888@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: davis@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: usenet.ins.cwru.edu In article <1991Jun12.112633.14888@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann) writes: > >in /etc/passwd there are passwords. > Not always. System V moves the password information out of /etc/passwd and into /etc/shadow, using /etc/passwd only for the other information it stores about users, like groups and login shells. Since they suspended this guy, I assume that it was a BSD system's /etc/passwd, though.... -- PTD -- -- Palmer Davis I'm probably wrong, so don't blame INS. CWRU Information Network Services Life is short. "Delaware has 1.1 million corporations -- I mean chickens." (sct)