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by aj3 1788 days ago
Password hashes. /etc/shadow isn’t world readable in Linux dither
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ylyn 1788 days ago
It seems like there are some cases where Windows accepts a password hash for authentication as a user though. So by having the hash of an administrator, you can escalate privileges.

I don't think there are such cases in Linux.

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