> Who said anything about storing passwords externally? Obviously I know that > passwords are in the pfile, but they are encrypted as long as your libc > supports crypt(). I am confused by your statement 'who said anything about > plaintext' -- what's the difference between keeping passwords in plaintext > or using a reversable crypt algorithm, and "having access to the passwords > of users" as you said in your original message? > These semantics aside, my original point stands - there is no reason at all > a sysadmin would ever need to know the passwords of his users. shrug, fine. it's a dead argument...
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