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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: *Big* security leak for users w/o crypt.
Date: 3 Feb 93 18:08:16
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: maverick@encap.hanse.de's message of 2 Feb 1993 18:59:55 +0100
In article <1kmcqrINN4l@encap.hanse.de> maverick@encap.hanse.de (Jan-Oliver Neumann) writes:
[ about a problem handling starred-out passwd entries, with the dummy crypt
routine ]
i'll make and post a set of diffs to fix this, so that the change will
hopefully get merged into the mainstream release channel...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
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