26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
12:20 p.m.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Manish Jethani wrote:
This information is stored in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. But it is encrypted, so you cannot know the password. If you ever lose the
I'd like to add, that password encryption is one way only, and that is the only way it should ever be. One must understand the reasoning. If there is any way at all for a password to be decrypted, then it will be. There must therefore be no way to decrupt encrypted passwords.
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