Check which ports are open to the outside world. Helps make sure that your firewall rules are working as intended.
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So, cracking a UNIX password involves either finding the original password, or finding another password that combines with the same salt to generate the same hash.
Yes, the 40 bit keylength of DES implies that it's more likely that you could find another password that works than with 3DES, but there's no simple alghorithm to break the "key" and then produce a workable password. You have to brute force through the entire realm of password choices, combine them with the salts, and then hash them. That means you can't use a general-purpose DES cracking system (such as TINKLE or something). Also, given the small amount of information in the average password, it's likely that there aren't any such collisions anyway, even with 40 bit DES, so you really have to find the original password, in which case it doesn't matter if you have a 40 bit algorithm or a 4000000 bit algorithm.