Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:20:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: maillist@home.comhelp.com (Mail Lists) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encrypted password Message-ID: <199707072120.XAA20164@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970707131854.11400A@home> from Mail Lists at "Jul 7, 97 01:20:08 pm"
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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
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