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From: Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:13:20
Message-Id: 558b73fb050826150610659a01@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system by Fernando Meira
1 On 8/26/05, Fernando Meira <fmeira@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > You're lacking optimism... Of course the brute-force attack was not
5 > supposed to be done remotely! You can pull passwd to your local machine and
6 > the let your computer handle it without interruptions. If some proprieties
7 > of the password are known beforehand, then sooner would be a matter of hours
8 > and later a couple of days. This is not even putting into the game some
9 > distributed computing...
10 >
11 >
12 True, but if you use shadow to store your passwords your in much better
13 shape since the average hacker can't get a hold of the root owned shadow
14 file.
15
16 -Mike
17
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19 ________________________________
20 Michael E. Crute
21 Software Developer
22 SoftGroup Development Corporation
23
24 Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
25 "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system Greg Shikhman <cornmander@×××××.com>