On 8/26/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/26/05, Fernando Meira < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're lacking optimism... Of course the brute-force attack was not supposed to be done remotely! You can pull passwd to your local machine and the let your computer handle it without interruptions. If some proprieties of the password are known beforehand, then sooner would be a matter of hours and later a couple of days. This is not even putting into the game some distributed computing...
True, but if you use shadow to store your passwords your in much better shape since the average hacker can't get a hold of the root owned shadow file.
-Mike
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Michael E. Crute
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SoftGroup Development Corporation
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