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From: dpb@tellab5.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Re: weird bug with passwd and /dev/syscon
Message-ID: <794@tellab5.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 02:17:50 EST
Article-I.D.: tellab5.794
Posted: Mon Nov  2 02:17:50 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 01:15:32 EST
References: <298@boole.acc.virginia.edu> <260@slxsys.co.uk> <538@ambush.UUCP>
Reply-To: dpb@tellab5.UUCP (Darryl Baker)
Organization: Tellabs Inc., Lisle, Il.
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Within Article <538@ambush.UUCP> kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes:
+In article <260@slxsys.co.uk> jpp@slxsys.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
+>",.." in /etc/passwd ! I hope you dont allow dial'ins now you have told
+>the world !
+
+That is ridiculous all password fields under 13 characters are void -
+that means if you put a password entry of NOLOGIN you cannot login
+under that username. Only if the encrypted password is exactly 13
+characters long will it be accepted as an encrypted password.
+
+					Kim Chr. Madsen.

	Ok, Kim your right for BSD and USG up until System III, but
	from System III on and their mutations the encrypted password
	field has a subfield comma delimited that is used for password
	aging. It is incoded in radix64 and the first digit is how
	often the user must change their password the second digit is
	minimum number of weeks between password changes.

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