Re: Passwords

[DdB <debianlist@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de>]

Am 17.01.2023 um 07:14 schrieb Stanislav Vlasov:
> вт, 17 янв. 2023 г. в 11:01, David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com>:
>> Looking on the internet it says the passwords are stored in /etc/passwd
>> and /etc/shadow
> 
>  In /etc/shadow only password's hashes, some data, one-way calculated
> from password string.
> 
>> The password string in /etc/shadow looks as if it's encoded, how can I
>> read this string?
> 
> You can't.
Everyone (and their friend) seem to know, how to work around this, which
apparently is common debian knowledge (which is nice).

But somehow, i feel there could be more caring about avoiding to teach
future hackers by accident. Is this kind of lesson appropriate for a
users list? - I doubt it.

just my 2 cents
DdB