pwd module vs Linux shadow passwords

[Siggy Brentrup]

"John W. Baxter" <jwbaxter at olympus.net> writes:

> Using Python 1.5.2 (and earlier) on BSDi, the pwd module's getpw...
> functions are able to retrieve the encrypted password (from
> /etc/master.passwd) if run as root.
> 
> Using Python 1.5.2 and 2.1b1 on Linux (RH 6.2), the functions do not
> similarly dig the encrypted password out of /etc/shadow.
> 
> Is the latter action intentional, or is something not being set up

It's the main point of shadow passwords, cf.

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-shadowpasswords.html

Thanks
 Siggy
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