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Re: logout and auto-login

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 04:19 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 03:19 pm, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

Try "nidump passwd ." as any user.

That's not the password, it's a hash of the password. Different thing entirely.

Guess how long it would take to break a regular password on a G5/2GHz when you got that hash.
On a quantum computer those hashes are just as secure as the plaintext password.


andy

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