full-disclosure - SMC Router safe Login in plaintext

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From: irwanhadi at phxby.com (Irwan Hadi)
Subject: SMC Router safe Login in plaintext

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:01:57PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:

> > I know when I worked for an ISP it was certainly not 
> > like that... their system ran off some sort of unix 
> > box using pppd. All their passwords were in 
> > etc/passwd and shadow with the rest of em.
> 
> /etc/shadow scales that well?  Yow!

Depends on the O/S I guess. For FreeBSD, it stores the password in a
database format see pwd_mkdb(8) by using db(3), so it should scale
pretty well.