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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password
Date: 11 May 1997 17:25:20 GMT
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rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) wrote:

> >root:
> >        password = XXXXXXXXXXXX
> >        lastupdate = 846681506
> >        flags =

> What the heck operating system is this for, anyway?

You've never seen AIX before?  `Stanza', well, that's AIX. :)  All
their internal config files are this way.  Alas, they're often
compiled into an internal database, too.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)