Documentation?

[David Sharp]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have NDI why they just
>> can't send the pw to my recorded email addy and leave it otherwise
>> alone.
>
> I'd imagine for the same reason that you can't just read other user's
> passwords from /etc/(passwd,shadow): they are stored hashed so that
> leaking the password data doesn't leak the passwords themselves.

Also, email is not a secure mode of communication.

>
> Ross
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