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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: weird bug with passwd and /dev/syscon
Message-ID: <9222@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 12:28:19 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.9222
Posted: Thu Nov  5 12:28:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 10:42:34 EST
References: <298@boole.acc.virginia.edu> <260@slxsys.co.uk> <886@csuchic.csuchico.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <886@csuchic.csuchico.EDU> ronald@csuchico.EDU (Ronald Cole) writes:
>",.." ... causes the password to be expired the next time that a
>user logs onto the system. ... new users fill out [paper] forms with
>their login and password and these are kept on file.

We have a program called `newacct' that builds most of the passwd
file entry, including the encrypted password, in such a way so that
the unencrypted password is not stored anywhere.  Such a program
is easy to write, given the existence of getpass() and crypt().
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