Post #4047712
2026-07-23 22:24 UTC
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @rose@pl.pinkro.se @navi@social.vlhl.dev also makes u wonder why shadow was designed the way it was in the first place
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 2026-07-23 22:28
@fiore@brain.worm.pink @rose@pl.pinkro.se @navi@social.vlhl.dev True but well design mistakes happen and shadow was pretty much just moving the password field (2nd field, typically set to either x or nothing these days) away from /etc/passwd, so a single root-only file is a pretty straightforward change. Weirder is more on BSDs that also got something similar to /etc/shadow but different filename + content.