Re: Listing locked user accounts on Linux
By: John Guillory to Chris Trainor on Wed May 02 2012 09:18 am
> I often wondered why folks used to make it sound like 'shadowed'
> passwords
> where secure, all it looked like they was doing was moving the file to
> another location.... ;-)
/etc/passwd is readable by all users. The shadow password isn't. When the
pass
word is placed in the shadow password file, it is secure.
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