shadow

Hi.

Why does the shadow file show the first two characters of the password for
each user?

Augie

Augie Henriques <augiehenriques@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi.

Why does the shadow file show the first two characters of the password for
each user?

Can you clarify? Just to test, I set my password to “asdfjk” and the
shadow looks like: “dagibbs:EN6XIXW|gb6I7:989442807:0:0” – nowhere do
I see the first letters of my password.

-David

QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com

But there is the real short program, which decode shadow file passwords.

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Hi.

Why does the shadow file show the first two characters of the password
for
each user?

Augie