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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