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Update: On rereading, I've decided that mine isn't a very useful reply. /:

Actually, even on many systems with shadowed passwords, either the C library's getpw*() or Perl's wrapper will grab the shadow encrypted password when the routine is called by a process with effective user ID of 0 (root).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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