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From: jkimble@crash.cts.com (Jim Kimble)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Unix Password Hacker
Message-ID: <2584@crash.cts.com>
Date: 24 Feb 88 18:10:54 GMT
References: <731@ddsw1.UUCP> <657@morningdew.BBN.COM> <1368@homxc.UUCP> <739@ddsw1.UUCP> <1118@uop.edu>
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In article <1118@uop.edu> todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
>
>In another place I worked the new semester was the best time, as all
>the new accounts had the password of "nopassword".
>
>So if you played around, you could find some accounts by the lazy people
>who did not bother to drop by the lab for the first two weeks.
>

But what purpose does this serve?  The first time the owners of the accounts
try to login and find they can't, they're going to make a phone call to the
data processing people who will just assign a new password right there over
the phone.

All this would really do is give you an additional UNIX account for a week
or two.  I doubt the students have any more access then anyone else.

--Jim Kimble

"I used to be into necrophillia, flagellation, and beastiality -- but my
friends said I was just beating a dead horse."

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