I'd really prefer that even my history remain private, not to mention password files.

Like Wayne said, stealing the password file just gives you a list of people.

He edited the password file, and added a new account, one with system manager privileges.

This was the second time he'd ripped off my password file.

That's the third or fourth time I'd seen him copy the whole password file into his home machine.

Still, why else would he copy the password file?

It had been about three weeks since he copied my password file.

This explained why he'd always copied our password files to his system.

He'd show up for three minutes, look at our password file, then log out.

Decryption of the new password file had been simple enough.