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From: AGRISCS@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Don Ingli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: RE: shadow...
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Date: 2 Jan 90 03:10:53 GMT
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First of all, let me apologize for my last posting, I ran it through a
speller/sentence restructurer that I am TRYING to write :-) and it did a good
job of chopping up my sentences.

What good is shadow??  Well the permissions for the shadow file are

-r-------- 1 root    sys     2267 Dec 21 14:49 /etc/shadow

Root owns it and ONLY root can read it... thus no user can read it for
encryption/decryption routines.  This is a secure way for your machine
to keep the hackers out of the passwds.

To create this 2-file passwd scheme, look up the man page  pwconv(1M).

This is SYS V ..  does anyone know if BSD has this also??


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