Timeline for Why should you NEVER edit the /etc/shadow file directly?
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| Apr 27, 2017 at 17:23 | answer | added | Bigtexun | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jan 3, 2017 at 19:16 | answer | added | Tomuo | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 22:00 | answer | added | mikeserv | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 0:12 | comment | added | captcha | I am nice in the sense that I aim to demonstrate that things are not always black or white. On a small embedded system where you are without all the bells and whistles of a full-blown linux distro you may have to edit things by hand. Never assume the OP is not knowledgeable enough to understand this. There, reason given. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:26 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @captcha Nonsense. There are good reasons not to do that. Just because you can't think of any doesn't entitle you to call other people ignorant. Please be nice. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:25 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 21 | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 22:32 | comment | added | captcha | The 'Usually you should NEVER' comment is clealy given for FUD purposes. (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Sounds like the owner of that comment doesn't know either. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Chris Davies | "usually you should never" is not the same as "never". | |
| S Mar 15, 2015 at 21:25 | history | suggested | JdeBP | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Have a pointer to where this is written, copied exactly by the questioner, on this very WWW site. |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 12:15 | history | edited | Braiam | edited tags | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 10:56 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 10:55 | history | edited | Anthon | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 4 characters in body |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 10:53 | comment | added | Anthon | Update your question (by editing it) with a link to why you think this is the case. I have been editing /etc/shadow for over 20 years without a problem, ever. And please be so polite to read the two minute help→tour, especially the "no distractions", "no chit-chat". This is the first time I had to read through more non-relevant chit-chat in a question than read through question relevant "details". | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 10:47 | history | edited | Anthon | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 125 characters in body |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 9:50 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | Because you will break it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 7:46 | comment | added | Milind Dumbare | because it has your passwords encrypted. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 7:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 7:44 | history | asked | Claude Cameron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |