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Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Extract password from /etc/passwd
- From: Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Oct 19 11:55:01 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> That's the shadow password protection. You MUST be on as root to see the
> encrypted password which is in /etc/shadow - ONLY ROOT can see this file.
> /etc/passwd is blank so that no none can even SEE the encrypted password :-)
Merci Beaucoup!, now it makes sense....
~ Theo