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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: xdm and auth on Ultrix 4.4

xdm and auth on Ultrix 4.4

Walter Zimmer (zimmercis.umassd.edu)
Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:16:16 EST 

Hi !

We have auth running for our passwd database but we try to set up
xdm since it makes no sense hiding the encrypted passwords when
everybody with an account can monitor the plaintext ones via X.

Anyone got some experience or pointers an how to modify xdm
and what risks are involved ?

Anyway, is auth itself a good choice ? Are there any flaws in it
which make it worse than distributing /etc/passwd (by 'hand', not
via NIS) ?

Many thanks for your help,
Walter

zimmercis.umassd.edu
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