From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 01:00:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9544F16A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:00:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2A243D39 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:00:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pergesu@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so589497wri for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:00:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=S0OQRDOQ9xGwpSkyGxc/LzN+ufFHUiXdGl+xPGtcDUbwupzF/Zxh8tL5+3y21x8vK2i0puYTd8T2kfEIvmihrFOtyhv7xZW+fwjApthwDLMrw0HcSeDbNktf9StYKA/87qP4+MaWmI8JMOyTVM4gvQsly0MjefvngMnMj4rLw7w= Received: by 10.54.44.70 with SMTP id r70mr231832wrr; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.42.28 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:00:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <810a540e05020517004715999b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:00:19 -0700 From: Pat Maddox To: Gert Cuykens In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do all the passwd get saved ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pat Maddox List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:00:20 -0000 /etc/passwd is a system file that just lists accounts. Having the passwords in there is insecure because it has to be readable by everyone. In linux systems, the actual passwords are in /etc/shadow. I don't know exactly how FreeBSD handles passwords. I don't even think it uses /etc/passwd (only there for compatibility with some linux software?), and instead keeps everything in a hashed database file. My guess is that all the passwords are in spwd.db. But I don't know that for sure :) Hopefully somebody else can clarify this. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:45:09 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > I thought it was /etc/passwd but that seemed not to be where i was > looking for :) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >