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Originally Posted by dugan
Honestly? I think you should go back to him(?) and ask him why he told you that.
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Probably because you can, by directly editing /etc/shadow, see and change/remove the users hashed password as it used to be done in past eras. Admittedly you cannot read the current password nor assign a new password that way, but it can easily be removed/locked/screwed up by doing a direct edit.
