Ultrix 3.0 - where are the tales?

[Steve Dempsey]

In article <20218 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> rob at violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
>In article <126 at indri.primate.wisc.edu> bin at primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>>Now that Ultrix 3.0 is out, I've been anxiously waiting to hear [tales] ...
>
>STILL no hashed passwords.  So if your running something like an 8820
>with lots and lots of users and have a binary distribution, expect to
>dedicate a processor to doing "ls -l"'s.

What about Yellow Pages?  Its maps are hashed.  Even on a single machine,
YP is a big win when your maps are large.

>
>Oh yeah:
>    ultrix 3.0 %  strings /usr/ucb/lock | head
>    eley) 3/30/83
                ^^
>>>> hasta la vista			<<<
>    Key:
>    Again:

Ouch!  Someone at DEC *must* be asleep.  This is very old news indeed.
Reminds me of a locally hacked `su' and /bin/login with a hard-coded
back door, easily found with `strings'.  Did I really do that (years ago)?
Naaaaaah.

>				rob at violet.berkeley.edu

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