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Shadow Utilities

11.5 Shadow Utilities

Support for shadow passwords has been enhanced significantly for Red Hat Linux 5.2. Shadow passwords are a method of improving system security by moving the encrypted passwords (normally found in /etc/passwd) to another file with more restrictive file access permissions. The shadow-utils package contains a number of utilities that support:

Please Note: There are a few additional points of interest concerning these utilities:


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