is there any command to find user password?

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is there any command to find user password?..

No way one can get the password of other user even if root
also can not get the password unless untill there is an
readble entry in /etc/passwd file. But for the super user,
it doesn't need to know the user's passwrod to access his
docs.

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is there any command to find user password?..

Answer / choyal

No, No one can't know the passwd because it is stored in in

/etc/shadow file as MD5 Hash ,
and link at /etc/passwd.
We can convert Value(passwd) to Hash but not Hash to
value(passwd)
Super user is also not able to retrive passwd......

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is there any command to find user password?..

Answer / aditya

Simply not..........
There is no command in universe to find out password of a
user in unix

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is there any command to find user password?..

Answer / thulla

Yes, the entry will be only in /etc/passwd. But this file
is very deleciate, it is better that we do not touch this
file in order to know the password also.

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