Re: Change UNIX password from Windows

Posted in 1996

Mike Segel — Fri, 06 Sep 1996 19:44:21 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Derrek Poulson wrote: > the UNIX password is changed, it'd sure be nice to be able to update the > encrypted password Setnet puts in informix.ini. Any suggestions on this one? Boy, Being a UNIX security freak,[ can we say paranoid?] , I would have to be really hesitant to store the password on a client machine. Why don't you send me the encrypted passwd? I bet I can break it ;-) (OK, so I am assuming DOS/Windoz uses the same algorithm as crypt) Yet I digress. A rule of thumb is that you don't want to store any passwords on the PC. Just a tip from your uncle mike!