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RE: Reverse engineer passwords

From: Eric D. Pierce <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:08:06 -0700
Message-Id: <10558.112118@fatcity.com>


I thought that in her original post, Linda said that they were trying to AVOID changing the encrypted passwords since the people that set them and left her organization were techs, and there was a possibility that changing the encrypted passwords would "break" some kind of password dependent routines those tech had created, no?
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Date sent:      	Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:50:47 -0800
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From:           	"Jamadagni, Rajendra" <rajendra.jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Subject:        	RE: Reverse engineer passwords

> Reverse Engineering passwords is not possible (it better not be), instead,
> why can't you change the passwords on the account to something that only the
> DBA knows? ALTER USER ...
Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 17:08:06 CDT

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