Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:02:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: pirat@center.oaep.go.th Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd file Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9903250858050.16303-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990324171835.pirat@center.oaep.go.th>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 pirat@center.oaep.go.th wrote:
[...]
> cp /etc/passwd .
> ls -l
> ./john -single passwd
> ls -l
> cat password.lst
[...]
> shall he finally know the user's password from the sequence of his action shown
> above ?
>
Nah. There's nothing in /etc/passwd except for the user-names; the
real stuff is kept in /etc/master.passwd, which should be root-owned,
mode 0600.
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