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From: kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Unix Password Hacker
Message-ID: <161200005@uiucdcsb>
Date: 23 Feb 88 03:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie    Feb 22 21:11:00 1988


>  
>  Our company has had the policy of assigning passwords and making them
>  unchangeable to the employees.  These passwords are totally random so
>  that this technique will not work.  When I first started working here
>  I did not understand this philosophy.  But, now I do.
>  .....
>  
>  		Paul Schmidt
>  		Texas Instruments
>  	

It's ironic that TI worries about secure passwords on their Unix machines when
their lisp workstations (and the lisp workstations of other makers)
have no password protection at all. Given the network address of 
a lisp workstation you can read, delete, modify files from
anywhere in world via ftp.


Carl Kadie
Inductive Learning Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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