passwd files (solved sort of)

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Author: sinck@owmyeye.ugive.comsinckowmyeye.ugive.com
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Subject: passwd files (solved sort of)
\_ > \_ If you're using MD5 passwords in Linux' /etc/shadow,
\_ > \_ then you'll need to run "crack" on your old hashed
\_ > \_ passwords to convert them to cleartext, and...
\_ >
\_ > But that'll be processor intensive and fail because all of the users
\_ > will have picked secure passwords, right? :-)
\_
\_ Even if they weren't secure passwords,

Actually, that was my point.... end users are not typically smart
about passwords.

David