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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Always about ATHENA Wide ....

Always about ATHENA Wide ....

Davide Melchiorre (securityncub1.polito.it)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:56:04 +0100 

 
 Thanx for the answers .... but my philosophical doubt permain....
 
 Ok.. all users' lines are copied by hesiod from, usually,
 /etc/athena/nameserver/passwd.db into the /etc/passwd when an user
 logs into the machine ... but where are archieved the encrypted password
 of the users to validate them when they logs into ? ..
 Into 'passwd.db' we've got user:*:id:gid:etc.etc. and not the
 encrypted password .. but when the user logs into the machine we've
 got into the /etc/passwd : user:encr.pass:id:gid:etc.etc. (of course
 if there isn't other shadow systems in surplus) .. 
 To validate an user somewhere should be the encrypted passwords ..
 where ? .. 
 
      thanx in advance .... 
 
          Davide Melchiorre..