tcb - the alternative to shadow

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Thu Aug 24 15:19:32 UTC 2006


Hi.

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:04:26 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:

> http://www.openwall.com/presentations/Owl/mgp00020.html

Hmmm. What is the advantage of this scheme? The first disadvantage
that springs to my mind is that any attacker that gains user privileges
(browser bug or whatever) can suddenly change the user password.




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