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Since this password list appears to come from one of the original systems on which UNIX and C were developed, it would be fun to see the names and original pass
by cantrevealname 7y ago
Since this password list appears to come from one of the original systems on which UNIX and C were developed, it would be fun to see the names and original passwords of all the luminaries. I merged together the author's work, the original /etc/passwd, and the comments from the mailing list:
root:OVCPatZ8RFmFY:Ernie Co-vax --> cowperso
daemon:*:The devil himself --> (login not allowed)
bill:.2xvLVqGHJm8M:Bill Joy --> (password still unknown)
ozalp:m5syt3.lB5LAE:Ozalp Babaoglu --> 12ucdort
sklower:8PYh/dUBQT9Ss:Keith Sklower --> theik!!!
kridle:4BkcEieEtjWXI:Bob Kridle --> jilland1
kurt:olqH1vDqH38aw:Kurt Shoens --> sacristy
schmidt:FH83PFo4z55cU:Eric Schmidt --> wendy!!!
hpk:9ycwM8mmmcp4Q:Howard Katseff --> graduat;
tbl:cBWEbG59spEmM:Tom London --> ..pnn521
jfr:X.ZNnZrciWauE:John Reiser --> 5%ghj
mark:Pb1AmSpsVPG0Y:Mark Horton --> uio
dmr:gfVwhuAMF0Trw:Dennis Ritchie --> dmac
ken:ZghOT0eRm4U9s:Ken Thompson --> p/q2-q4!
sif:IIVxQSvq1V9R2:Stuart Feldman --> axolotl
scj:IL2bmGECQJgbk:Steve Johnson --> pdq;dq
pjw:N33.MCNcTh5Qw:Peter J. Weinberger --> uucpuucp
bwk:ymVglQZjbWYDE:Brian W. Kernighan --> /.,/.,
uucp:P0CHBwE/mB51k:UNIX-to-UNIX Copy --> whatnot
srb:c8UdIntIZCUIA:Steve Bourne --> bourne
finger::The Finger Program --> (no pw but runs a program, not a login shell)
who::The Who Program --> (no password but runs a program, not a login shell)
w::The W Program --> (no password but runs a program, not a login shell)
mckusick:AAZk9Aj5/Ue0E:Kirk McKusick --> foobar
peter:Nc3IkFJyW2u7E:Peter Kessler -- ...hello
henry:lj1vXnxTAPnDc:Robert Henry --> sn74193n
jkf:9ULn5cWTc0b9E:John Foderaro --> sherril.
fateman:E9i8fWghn1p/I:Richard Fateman --> apr1744
fabry:d9B17PTU2RTlM:Bob Fabry --> 561cml..
network:9EZLtSYjeEABE:(no name listed) --> network (runs a program, not a login shell)
tty:: --> (no password but runs a program, not a login shell)
It's amusing to see that even very smart people picked passwords just like people do today:
- spouses' names (jilland1, wendy!!!, sherril.)
- birth dates (apr1744 might be April 17, 1944)
- the first word that came to your mind (whatnot, foobar, ...hello)
- though a few were thoughtful (sn74193n is a synchronous binary counter from the 7400-series chip family and likely immune to dictionary attack in that era)
- easy to type patterns on a keyboard (/.,/., or 5%ghj)
- obscure words (axolotl is a Mexican walking fish)
- different languages (12ucdort is 1,2,3,4 in Turkish)
- and some people didn't care (Steve Bourne, inventor of the Bourne shell, picked "bourne")
- royce 7y agoThe superset of all of the original CSRG-shipped cracking-eligible descrypt hashes is actually about 1400 hashes, drawn from a slightly smaller number of overlapping accounts among releases. Many of them appear to have been temp/test/throwaway with generic usernames and short, simple passwords.