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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: encrypted password
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> 
>   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

Because its not there :-)

The passwords are stored in /etc/master.passwd. You can find more about
it by consulting the man pages for vipw and pwd_mkdb and some others
mentioned in the ``See also'' section of these manual pages.

Wolfgang