full-disclosure - Re: IRCXpro 1.0 - Clear local and default remote admin passwords

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Message-ID: <20030604164207.GE10471@eiv.com>
From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: Re: IRCXpro 1.0 - Clear local and default remote admin passwords

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:35:28PM +0300, ????? ????? said:
> 
> There are a lot of reasons to store the passwords encrypted... And not
> that much reasons to store them unencrypted - in fact, there is only one
> good reason that i can think of, and it's the need to retrieve lost
> passwords, but the best way to do that, is to keep a hardened database
> of the unencrypted passwords, and use it for this sole purpose.

IMHO, a better way to do that is to provide a way for privileged users
to change the password, instead of maintaining it anywhere in cleartext.


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