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From: anything@max.u.washington.edu
Subject: [386BSD] passwords in master.passwd
Message-ID: <1992Sep24.133110.1@max.u.washington.edu>
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 20:31:10 GMT

Are users passwords supposed to totally unencrpyted and visible to any su
in the etc/master.passwd file? any way to change this so it shows the crypted
form like a sys V etc/passwd file does?

thanks
don levinson
anything@max.u.washington.edu
levinson@halcyon.com