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From: db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM (David Brownell)
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Subject: Re: Should we let students run COPS?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 18:34:08 GMT
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My previous note had a bad edit, sorry.  Correction:

> 		If COPS didn't print out passwords after guessing
> them, the source could easily be "fixed".  Today's solution to that
> problem is password files!
	  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That should be:  "is shadow password files".  This seems to be the root
of the whole "debate" here, that one site chose not to use shadow (or
"adjunct") password files and didn't like the inherent consequences.

- Dave