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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
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Subject: Re: Student suspended for distributing /etc/passwd
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Date: 13 Jun 91 09:34:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.112633.14888@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann) writes:
> /etc/passwd is a security risk, that has not been plugged, yet.

Really.  If you run a machine which has the shadow mechanism in any of
its flavours, and don't use it, you get what's coming to you.

ian