-=> John Guillory wrote to Chris Trainor <=-
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JG> Re: Listing locked user accounts on Linux
JG> By: Chris Trainor to John Guillory on Wed May 02 2012 01:06 am
> Yes, /etc/passwd still exists on modern systems, but you cannot tell if
> the user account is locked out from that.
JG> I often wondered why folks used to make it sound like 'shadowed'
JG> passwords
JG> where secure, all it looked like they was doing was moving the file
JG> to
JG> another location.... ;-)
The passwords will not be revealed because there is no reverse on the hash.
That's the point of the shadow file. They are just a hash.
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