Storing passwords

From: Lem Lo (lemlo@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/02 

From: "Lem Lo" <lemlo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:45:28 -0700

Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew how the user and
administrator passwords are stored? Is there a danger of
someone being able to read them from a hard disk?

Thanks in advance for the help