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Re: Downgrading a system from V4R5 to V4R2

From: Hall, Philip <phall@spss.com>
> > Maybe the question "why" is applicable.
>
> Why - because given someone can get hold of an encrypted version of the
> standard 10 char passwords it takes less than an hour to get the clear text
> version/
> _______________________________________________

If you want to 'interoperate' with Windoze I think you are still stuck
with the LANMAN 7-character password. But Al's question is
important: what percentage have disabled 'windows-support'
and switched to 128-char passwords (pasted to the terminal
because they are hard to remember :-)?

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