[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

[Always Learning]

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:55 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> > On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Again, the real bruteforce danger is when your /etc/shadow is exfiltrated by a security vulnerability
> 
> Unless you have misconfigured your system, anyone who can copy /etc/shadow already has root privileges.  They don’t need to crack your passwords now.  You’re already boned.

On C5 the default appears to be:-

	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 Jan 31 03:04 shadow

On C6, the default is:-

	----------  1 root root      854 Mar 13  2014 shadow


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Paul.
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