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2009-11-08 , 18:28
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#105
Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
You didn't understand what I wrote. Authentication with PAM or equivalent requires some kind of input data. If you _save_ your password then you simply _lost_ your chance to allow yourself to require input data.
This is true, however, you seemed (and indeed, seem) to be giving the impression that traditional unix passwd files saved passwords, and that this only changed with the move to shadow passwords. That is not the case.

You said that a major difference with shadow passwords is that:
the input data is encrypted and compared with the entry on /etc/shadow.
In fact, that's exactly how traditional unix passwords work too, the _only_ difference with shadow passwords is that the hashes are not stored in a world readable file.
Last edited by ewan; 2009-11-08 at 18:31.