On Sat, 22 Apr 1995, Naved A Surve wrote:
> In message <Pine.3.89.9504221203.A1251-0100000@concrete.resnet.upenn.edu> you said:
>
> > > There is no reason whatsoever any sysadmin would ever need to know
> > > passwords of his users. Keeping passwords in plaintext is nothing but
> > > a recipie for disaster.
> >
> > i disagree, and who said anything about plaintext or storage? they're
>
> Please give an example of when a sysadmin would need to know the password of
> a user.
Yesplease do as I am interested in knowing this as well, I happen to
agree with Jeremy on this one, there is _NO_ reason that I can think of
off the top of head that a sysadmin would _NEED_ to know his users
passwords. Sorry Sean, but I think he is right on this one...
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