7 Apr
2003
7 Apr
'03
19:18
Why do you want to know what the password is? You know you can get to their data etc etc with su. The value of the password is the value of what is hidden behind it. So if you can get to the thing the password protects, the only value of the password is if a user is using the same password to protect something else for which you are not root...
Are you dangerous to know? ;-)
Hopefully not :-o What I wanted to do was save time in reissuing passwords to those students who had lost or forgotten them. (see previous in thread where I had made a bad decision in NIS to allow them to change their passwords).