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    NAME ubpasschk – check password in/etc/shadow SYNOPSIS ubpasschk DESCRIPTION Ubpasschk is a utility supplied to support the password checking functions of UNIBASE programs. On the original Unix systems, the user’s password was stored encrypted in the file /etc/passwd. As this file is generally readable it became easy to run password cracking programs against the encrypted…