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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Need a help with /etc/shadow Post 302787377 by jim mcnamara on Friday 29th of March 2013 10:51:19 AM
Old 03-29-2013
/etc/shadow is owned by root:root with 600 permissions.

Unless you actually hack the system, there is no feasible way to view the file.
What are you actually trying to do? (Not how you think you should try to do it)

If the answer is to see what /etc/shadow looks like and nothing else:

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