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Where are the encryted password files stored in linux. Can i directly access while the system is booted with linux. I'm having a software for accessing linux partitions thro windows. ...
- 09-08-2008 #1Just Joined!
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Encrypted passwords
Where are the encryted password files stored in linux. Can i directly access while the system is booted with linux. I'm having a software for accessing linux partitions thro windows. Tell me how can i take that.
- 09-08-2008 #2Linux Engineer
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They are in /etc/shadow and you can access it as root.
Can't tell an OS by it's GUI
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By which means it is encrypted. MD5 or some other hash.
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The path u have said is where the shadowed passwords are stored. But u can't get the real encrypted password in /etc/shadow
Originally Posted by Freston 
- 10-07-2008 #5Linux Guru
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What would be the purpose of encrypting passwords in /etc/shadow if they are available as plain text in another file?The path u have said is where the shadowed passwords are stored. But u can't get the real encrypted password in /etc/shadow
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