From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Feb  6 01:11:27 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 7AD5D16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  6 Feb 2005 01:11:27 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net
	[81.228.10.107])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6685743D2F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  6 Feb 2005 01:11:26 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se)
Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502)
	id 4585837E59; Sun,  6 Feb 2005 02:11:25 +0100 (CET)
Received: from smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net
	[81.228.10.180])
	by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B6037E43
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  6 Feb 2005 02:11:25 +0100 (CET)
Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se
	[212.181.162.201])
	by smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ED1C337E45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  6 Feb 2005 02:11:24 +0100 (CET)
Received: (qmail 61899 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Feb 2005 01:11:24 -0000
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:11:24 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20050206011123.GA57234@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
Mail-Followup-To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com>,
	Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
References: <ef60af0905020516451ef87d66@mail.gmail.com>
	<810a540e05020517004715999b@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <810a540e05020517004715999b@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
cc: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
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
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:11:27 -0000

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:00:19PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote:
> /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 <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought it was /etc/passwd but that seemed not to be where i was
> > looking for :)

RTFM, the passwd(5), passwd(1), pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) manpages in particular.






-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se