On Wed, 28 May 2003, admir wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to linux and right now I am studying it. I read that password in > the "passwd" file are noet encrepted. > > I also opend it ones with pico and it was in clear text. > > I tried to open it today and clear text was gone. I can only see a ''X" in > password place. > > What is going on? How can I get my clear text passwords back?
What's going on is that your passwords have been converted to "shadow" passwords. Additionally, your passwords probably weren't actually "clear text"...while you were seeing text in the password fields, to be sure, what you were seeing were passwords that were encrypted using an MD5 Hash (at least, if I recall correctly, it was MD5). -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
