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Bug#42124: `passwd' is not spelled `password'



Package: boot-floppies
Version: unknown

In ther section of install.txt where it talks about shadow passwords,
it mis-names `/etc/passwd' as `/etc/password'.

     Next, the system will ask whether you want to enable shadow passwords.
     This is a system in which your Linux system is made to be a bit more
     secure. In a system without shadow passwords, passwords are stored
     (encrypted) in a world-readable file, `/etc/password'. This file has
     to be readable to anyone who can log in because it contains vital user
     information, for instance, how to map between numeric user identifiers
     and login names. Therefore, someone could conceivably grab your
     `/etc/password' file and run a brute force attack against it to try to
     determine passwords.

ttfn/rjk


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