Yet Another useful paper

[Henry Spencer]

In article <110 at microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp at microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
>My objection to shadow password files is that the layer of security they
>provide relies on the unreadability of the file by non-root people.
>Unix is not particularly secure this way...

This does somewhat depend on how alert the sysadmin is.  However, I think
you're missing a point:  shadow password files do add one more layer of
complication for would-be crackers.  There is no such thing as perfect
security, just ways of making life harder for the bad guys.
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