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Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- From: Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Oct 19 11:27:38 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
>Am I blind or something!?... I don't even see an encrypted portion
>(which would
>be a password) in any of the lines in my
>
>/etc/passwd
Look at /etc/shadow
For security concerns, having the crypted passwords as world readable
is no good. So, (and it's default on RaQ3 and others) they are stored
in the /etc/shadow file which is only readable by root.
Hope that helps,
Fabrice Prémel.