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G'day!

I administrate a network of 10 or so Acorns.
I am new to Acorn administration, as I am used to unix ;)
It is a school lab, and I tend to worry about security.

Is there a way to mount another user without the password?
Or is there a way to crack user passwords?
Is there a way to crack the administrator password?

I'm talking about LAN mounts..

Sorry if I'm being cryptic, but I'm still getting used to it..

Thanks in advance,

David Ericson.

PS: If anyone has any info/text/scripts for security on Acorns,
    I'm open for suggestions.

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Quote:> It is a school lab, and I tend to worry about security.

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> Is there a way to mount another user without the password?
> Or is there a way to crack user passwords?
> Is there a way to crack the administrator password?

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If it's Level 4, then /in my experience/ there will be no problems,
as long as you have a suitable password for the /only/ system user.

Access+ is apparently not terribly secure.

If you mean WindowsNT and OmniClient, then I've no idea!

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Quote:> I administrate a network of 10 or so Acorns.

Quote:> It is a school lab, and I tend to worry about security.

Quote:> Is there a way to mount another user without the password?

Quote:> Or is there a way to crack user passwords?

Quote:> Is there a way to crack the administrator password?

Quote:> I'm talking about LAN mounts..

Quote:> Sorry if I'm being cryptic, but I'm still getting used to it..

Quote:> PS: If anyone has any info/text/scripts for security on Acorns,
>     I'm open for suggestions.

Quote:> PPS: Sorry about the cryptic setup of this message ;)

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: > I administrate a network of 10 or so Acorns.

Sounds fun.

: > I am new to Acorn administration, as I am used to unix ;)

Ah.... both are easy to use once you learn how.

: > It is a school lab, and I tend to worry about security.

Give up now, then.  Security isn't something that is easy to get right,
especially in a school environment.

: > Is there a way to mount another user without the password?

Depends on which protocol.  NFS?  No trouble.

: > Or is there a way to crack user passwords?

Several.  My favourite is to run Crack on the /etc/passwd file, or
packet-snoop the network looking for PC-NFS RPC authenticate-user
requests.  No hassle.

: > Is there a way to crack the administrator password?

Only via crack (and the like), or packetsnooping as you type it in over
the net.  Basically, don't do it, and use console.

: > I'm talking about LAN mounts..

: What kind of server are you talking about? What clients?

I would imaging Unix: 'I am new to Acorn administration as I am to Unix'
tends to give the game away IMHO ;-)

: If it's Level 4, then /in my experience/ there will be no problems,
: as long as you have a suitable password for the /only/ system user.

I didn't think Level 4 was, either.

: Access+ is apparently not terribly secure.

'Not terribly' - indeed not.

: If you mean WindowsNT and OmniClient, then I've no idea!

NiceTry is vaguely secure (has C2 security IIRC, as long as there's no
mouse, keyboard, or net. attach to it - someone from Mickeysoft was on
the panel the day that happened aparently).  Still, the password goes
across the network in (not quite) plaintext form as you PC-NFS log in.

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Quote:> Due to Windoze NiceTry, my .sig is out of order.
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> We apologise for the inconvenience.

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