So would your holiness care to change her password? Once upon a time, I ran ypcat passwd and piped it into John the Ripper on the CompSci Linux cluster at one

So would your holiness care to change her password? Once upon a time, I ran ypcat passwd and piped it into John the Ripper on the CompSci Linux cluster at one of the University of California campuses. Within 90s, I had amassed passwords of over 40 users including several lecturers and a tenured professor. The CS IT shop's mistake was running NIS+ rather than something like LDAP + Kerberos. Edit: ... god