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Subject: Listing locked user accou Date: Thu May 03 2012 13:21:00
From: Deuce To: Orion Blastar

  Re: Listing locked user accounts on Linux
  By: Orion Blastar to Deuce on Thu May 03 2012 10:40 am

 > We used to sanitize inputs so someone couldn't enter as a user name:

Yeah, but anyone who was a user could read the hashed passwords and perform an 
                                                                               a
ttack against the entire file.  Such utilities were common at the time (likely 
                                                                               s
till are).

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