Seeing a Hashed Password

Question

Is there a linux command to see the hashed password? Not the actual password but just the hash over it. I have tried showing hash table and such but that has yet to work. Feel like I'm just missing a simple command.

Answer 1

On Unix/Linux systems the hashed passwords of all users are stored into the file /etc/shadow and - for security reasons - this is readable only to root . Therefore there is no way for an unprivileged user to read its contents.

However, if the NIS service is enabled in your system/network, you can see the hashed passwords in the second column of the output of the command ypcat passwd .