Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!andre
From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passwords and salts
Keywords: passwd, password, salt
Message-ID: <943@targon.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 12:10:31 GMT
References: <85606@linus.UUCP> <1990Jan8.232650.6615@i88.isc.com>
Reply-To: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., DO, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Jan8.232650.6615@i88.isc.com> daveb@i88.isc.com (Dave Burton) writes:
>Oh, yes, *I'm* the sysadm for my machine. Really. Could you send me a copy?
>
>That is not being responsible - you have no way of verifying this truth of
>this statement. Besides, I may be the sysadm from my posting machine, but
>use the program on another which I'm not.

Oh yes you can! If you want to check this, just ask the person in question
to re-mail the request as root from his machine and then mail the sources
to the same root. This way even if he succeeds in faking a uucp header, his
administrator will catch him.

Also to fix the 'sysadm of a tiny machine (xenix on your home pc)' problem,
you can restrict redistribution to sysadms of the bigger machines owned by
universities and companies, and trust that being a sysadm gave the person
some responsible behaviour.

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