Re: Passwords

[David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au>]

On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 09:51 +0100, DdB wrote:
> 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.

For this sort of `cracking', there would need to be direct access to
the machine. It would involve house breaking after having discerned the
address in the other country the target resided in, and travelling
there.
Cheers!