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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How the Password Encryption Works in RHEL 6.4? Post 302790601 by alister on Saturday 6th of April 2013 12:31:19 AM
Old 04-06-2013
Does RHEL not provide a manual page to document the shadow file format? If not, did you search their voluminous online documentation?

I suspect this is something you can easily answer for yourself (if you could simply muster some effort).

Regards,
Alister
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