WARNING!

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Apr20.163540.23924 at engin.umich.edu> Mike O'Connor <mjo at ais.org> writes:
>How would the passwords be recognized as such?  Visual inspection?

A UNIX password is "recognized" when it is found to encrypt to the
known ciphertext.  Note that for purposes of account cracking, any
plaintext having this property will serve as a password just as
good as the one you originally chose (in case there are multiple
plaintexts that encrypt to the same ciphertext).