Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:43:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com> To: sextonr.crestvie@squared.com (Sexton, Robert) Cc: freebsd-security@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password mechanisms. Message-ID: <199607120743.JAA17299@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <2979895B0187397C@mg01a.mhs.squared.com> from "Sexton, Robert" at "Jul 11, 96 02:27:16 pm"
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Sexton, Robert wrote: > I realize that kerberos has been integrated into BSD4.4. Where does that > leave the old fashioned /etc/passwd file? I recently locked myself out > my FreeBSD system, and I was puzzled as to why I could not de-password > root, no matter what I tried There was something strange about clearing > the password out of /etc/shadow, and being ignored. I know this stuff is > there somewhere.. And more importantly, how would I backup account > information? Kerberos has nothing to do with it. In fact BSD uses a transparent shadow password system. The real stuff is stored in /etc/master.passwd. Note that you should edit it with vipw. Further, a running system uses pwd.db and spwd.db, the database equivalents of passwd and master.passwd. -Guido
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