I may be wrong but passwords in either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow are not encrypted they are hashed - there is no possibility of unencrypting them just finding a match with password crackers.

As I said I may be wrong - please correct me.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com>
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:39:35 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Random password generation

> >And of course you make sure you have  a different password for lilo 
> >than you have  for root, its amazing how many people who seem to be 
> >fairly competent believe that its perfectly fine to go round 
> >sticking the root password unencrypted in world readable files.
> 
> That is stoopid. Not the fault of the superuser, but of the system 
> (OS) designer.
> 
> There again, /etc/passwd used to have passwords (encrypted).
> 
> Gordo
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