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Re: [cobalt-users] How to check your Password File forshadowing



At 05:29 PM 10/5/00 +0100, you wrote:
Peter Low wrote:
>
> Um, none of them are shadowed (maybe /etc/passwd.OLD), and you really
> shouldn't post your password files to a public list.  If I were a bad
> person, I would now know where you are (from the email headers), user names
> for password guessing, and have data that I could feed to password cracking
> programs.

So, why not tell everybody that, just in case they hadn't worked it out
for themselves, and make sure to include the raw data in case anyone missed
it first time round?

Oh, you just did.

--
Dom.

My apologies for the disclosure, I forget what information is common knowledge and what might take five minutes of research to uncover.

You are correct -- I should have snipped his data from my reply.

Peter