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No Shadow?!



Hi fellow Linuxers,

Those of you who have been in this list for a while probably have seen
my name before here and know that I am not a 17 years old kid with
raging hormones so I hope you will honor me with a real answer to this
sensitive question:

How bad is it when a real life system has the encrypted root password in
/etc/passwd? or to put in other words, no shadow?

Am I naive or is the system administrator a damn fool? (well they do
have an NT lab... ;-)

In case you're wondering, I just noticed that the main UN*X (SunOS
Release 4.1.4 (MTA-NoFrwd) #2) at the place I study at has no shadow
installed (the name shall be withheld to protect the guilty) and THESE
are the guys who suppose to be teaching me ...

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Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>