From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 7 20:05:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23769 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23761 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03253; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:11:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:11:05 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Mail Lists cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: encrypted password In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Mail Lists wrote: > > Hi...I'm new to BSD and I see that when you run vipw it shows the > encrypted passwords, but just a star when using vi....what file holds the > encrypted passwords? I don't see /etc/shadow...thanks...Adam > /etc/master.passwd is the equivalent to /etc/shadow vipw edits /etc/master.passwd and rebuilds the hash database(s)...that's why nothing "changed" when you were editing (vi) the /etc/passwd file before. I highly recommend picking up "The Unix System Administrator's Handbook" version 2, by Evi Nemeth (and others). There is also "The FreeBSD Handbook", and the BSD4.4 paper manuals/documentation published by O'Reilly. See also all the documentation in /usr/share/doc -- John-David Childs (JC612) @denver.net/Internet-Coach System Administrator Enterprise Internet Solutions & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 "I used up all my sick days... so I'm calling in dead!"