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How is my password stored in Linux?

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People that use Linux on a daily basis probably are completely oblivious to the actual mechanisms being used to store their passwords safely and securely on a given Linux system. Oh they might guess that their password is stored in the /etc/passwd file (they’d be wrong by the way) but most probably never even gave […]

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