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plaintext vs plain text

unencrypted vs unstructured

Of course, unstructured is also incorrect; the passwd and shadow files have structured records, one per line.



…and being structured, the passwd file content should be accessed with the getpwent family of functions.


Which unfortunately are not thread safe.


"unencrypted" is normally written as "cleartext". "plaintext" means "(readable / intended to be read) without a special viewer". Your.ssh /id_rsa is plaintext but not cleartext.




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