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| -rw-r--r-- | man5/passwd.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/passwd.5 b/man5/passwd.5 index c2da9564ae..855e835167 100644 --- a/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/man5/passwd.5 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ hardware was too slow to crack a well-chosen password, and moreover the basic assumption used to be that of a friendly user-community. These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite, where .I /etc/passwd -has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords, +has an \(aqx\(aq character in the password field, and the encrypted passwords are in .IR /etc/shadow , which is readable by the superuser only. |