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Sounds like maybe "passwd" wasn't the best name for this file, then

• jandrese 5y ago
  Not anymore, but it is way too late to change it now, especially since it has been user readable since it was created. It's really just "accountdetails" now, with the real password living in a different file. Of course I remember the old "yp" system that would blast the whole file with passwords over the network to anyone who asked. The old Unix guys had a lot of faith in their hash algorithms.