whither 1.00's "passwd -p ..." ?

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com
Wed Jul 4 15:39:25 UTC 2007


On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Jim Freeman wrote:

> 	# passwd -p **** blip

Isn't this the well known insecure method that shouldn't be used
because (with the right timing) anyone can snap the password with ps
or 'cat /proc/<pid>/cmdline'?


-- 
Cristian



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