> > there are several reasons one may want to have access to the passwords of > > their users, and i dont feel it's unreasonable or unethical. > There is no reason whatsoever any sysadmin would ever need to know > passwords of his users. Keeping passwords in plaintext is nothing but > a recipie for disaster. i disagree, and who said anything about plaintext or storage? they're already stored in the pfile, why would you want to store them externally, and in plain text? _that_ is a 'recipie for disaster'.
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