From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 21:16:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13258 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-142.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.142]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA03542; Thu, 7 May 1998 23:16:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA04787; Thu, 7 May 1998 21:04:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805080204.VAA04787@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Schwenk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords? In-reply-to: Message from Peter Schwenk of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:56:42 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 21:04:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Schwenk writes: > Hello All, > > I'm wondering: does FreeBSD do shadow passwords? I'd like to use an > /etc/shadow file, but there's no mention in the man pages. Is this > missing from FreeBSD? No, it the other way around. FreeBSD doesn't do non-shadowed passwords. Oops, my 5th grade teacher beat into us, "Never say never because never is never right." If you export your user database with NIS then your hashed passwords will be visible to those who know to look. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message