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What is purpose of /etc/shadow and shadow cache files in Linux operating system?
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What is the purpose of the /etc/shadow file in Linux Operating system? Also, is it same for SUSE clients? There is one shadow cache file is maintained what is purpose of that?
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From the beginning, Unix and Unix-style operating systems (including Linux) have always stored passwords as cryptographic hashes (1). These hashes were originally stored in , but this file needed to be world-readable to make the information availabl…
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