From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 21:12:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02433 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:12:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02426 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 7317 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Oct 1998 04:11:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:11:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: VEGA cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: shadowing passwords In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, VEGA wrote: > is there a mechanism for FreeBsd to > shadow passwords? i have never > seen anyhting about it in the FAQ or handbook... There sure is; FreeBSD does it automatically. If you look in your /etc/passwd file, you'll see that any accounts you create will have a password of *, which translates to an un-decryptable password. The "real" encrypted files are stored in a root-readable-only file called /etc/master.passwd. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message