A Program To Allow ANYONE To Crack Unix (4.1 and 2)

[Henry Spencer]

To summarize very quickly a long flame I sent some months ago when
a similar issue came up:

1. Security/privacy/etc. and a readable kmem are incompatible.

2. Programs which read kmem are unportable, unclean, and unsafe, so
	having a readable kmem isn't all that desirable anyway.

The proper fix is not to make getpass() use raw mode, which can cause
problems of other kinds, but to simply "chmod 0600 /dev/kmem".
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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