Am 17.01.2023 um 07:14 schrieb Stanislav Vlasov: > вт, 17 янв. 2023 г. в 11:01, David <david.g_jo...@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