Re: Circle: Re: CRYPT

From: Naved A Surve (surve_n@server.cs.jhu.edu)
Date: 04/22/95


In message <Pine.3.89.9504221203.A1251-0100000@concrete.resnet.upenn.edu>  you said:

> > There is no reason whatsoever any sysadmin would ever need to know
> > passwords of his users.  Keeping passwords in plaintext is nothing but
> > a recipie for disaster.
> 
> i disagree, and who said anything about plaintext or storage? they're 

Please give an example of when a sysadmin would need to know the password of
a user.


-Naved

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Naved A. Surve <surve_n@jhu.edu>             The Johns Hopkins University
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