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> this was corrected pretty quickly with /etc/shadow

Not sure about "pretty quickly". If we peg the start of Unix at 1975, we then have Julie Hugh writing the Shadow Password Suite in 1987, thirteen years into the game, and the adoption of shadow didn't take place overnight.



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