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From: rosalia@sbcs (Mark Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: setting up crypted passwords
Message-ID: <763@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 16:13:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.763
Posted: Wed Oct 14 16:13:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 19:06:17 EDT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <934@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
>
>  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  The easiest way to do this is to use the
>"passwd" command to change the password for your own login id, copy the
>resulting encrypted password out of your line in /etc/passwd, then change
>your own password back.  (Got that?)
>

    Isn't it the case that the crypted form of a password also depends
on the login?  I am pretty sure that that is so.  Then what you would
have to do is (since you are root) create a dummy login with the name
"nuucp" (or whatever you were talking about) and change that from
the root account.
					Mark Galassi
				...!pyramid!sbcs!rosalia
{ these opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-) }
-- 
					Mark Galassi
				...!pyramid!sbcs!rosalia
{ these opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-) }