rootkit?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sun Dec 11 08:21:29 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 00:28 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:

> 
> Besides, the password cracker is enough to confirm that no current
> passwords and no existing account is 100% secure.

Fedora implements shadow.
If they did not get root, the presence of a passwd cracker is
meaningless - you need to have read access of the shadow file for the
cracker to do any good.




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