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SmoothWall is a freely available, open source hardened Linux solution. It is maintained and distributed by the SmoothWall Project. SmoothWall does not use shadowed passwords in their firewall implementation. While this is not inherently dangerous as firewall systems are not designed as multi-user, an unauthorized user gaining access to the system via exploitation of an unprivileged process may be able to gain administrative access by copying the password hash, and launching a brute force cracking program against it.

SmoothWall is a freely available, open source hardened Linux solution. It is maintained and distributed by the SmoothWall Project. SmoothWall does not use shadowed passwords in their firewall implementation. While this is not inherently dangerous as firewall systems are not designed as multi-user, an unauthorized user gaining access to the system via exploitation of an unprivileged process may be able to gain administrative access by copying the password hash, and launching a brute force cracking program against it.