Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 20:53 schrieben Sie: > At 08:03 PM 4/1/2005 +0200, Tobias Hirning wrote: >> [...] > > I don't, from these fragments, recognize what message you are > replying to, Tobias. Sorry about that, yes I was replying to your mail.
> But your quoting makes it appear that the two > suggestions you respond to are mine, and I just wanted to make it > clear that they are not. Neither would have been responsive to the > message that started this thread ... a user who forgot his own root > password looking for a workaround. I don't want to start such a big thread. > [...] > "Get the shadow file" is not a trivial step in the instructions > (How to travel in time: 1. Purchase or construct a flux capacitor; > 2. Install it in a DeLorean); normally it requires root access. So > anyone who can get this file has already figured out how to get > root access, at least in a limited way. I am a bit surprised at > your 90% claim; when I've done this (in my onetime role as a > sysadmin), I found maybe 3-5% of users had weak passwords (by the > standards of the cracking software of the time). Yes, I don't told, that it was the shadow file of a school, with only 8 character passwords and DES-encryption. > [...] Tobias -- GPG-Fingerprint: C39E 5381 7721 8613 B5C9 CFAF 54FC B8DB D02D 7085 Registered Linux-User #367044 Registered Linux-Machine #262062 http://counter.li.org Diese E-Mail wurde mit einer fortgeschrittenen elektronischen Signatur nach �2 2. d) SigG signiert.
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