On November 2, 2002 09:57 am, Dustin Navea wrote:
No but if there is a big enough hole, they could use it to get access to the /etc/passw and then use a dos program (crackerjack comes to mind here) to decrypt the program (especially if they are dual-booting win9x and linux)
That's why you have shadow passwords, which is pretty much standard nowadays, AFAIK.