Multiple Root ID's considered evil?

[Joe English]

kencr at haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) writes:
>One day while bored at work, I got out a piece of paper and traced back
>the DES crypt routine for some popular combinations of salt/key. If
>anyone is intrested, I have the passwords that make *, x, X, and 13 X's
>and 13 x's work. Send me E-mail.

Wow!  You must have been extremely bored...  But I'd
check your work, since the DES algorithm isn't supposed
to yield 1-character strings.

--Joe English

  jeenglis at nunki.usc.edu.  BTW, if you've got some spare time on
  your hands, could you factor 1001314159265692877 for me?
  Thanks.