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Re: Weird and insecure su problem: FIXED



On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:44:43PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:21:00 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >Unless you're using MD5 passwords, old Unix crypt() has been broken for
> >a long time. In any case it's probably not a good idea to spread
> >/etc/shadow around, just in case. :)
> 
> Hmm. You wouldn't happen to have a URL for a crypt()-cracker by any
> chance? I'd rather like to see what the corrupted password in
> /etc/shadow actually was. It might give me some clue as to how it got
> there!

Maybe John the Ripper, in the john package?

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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