From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 13:51:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09208 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09149 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22591; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:50:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Evren Yurtesen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd.db? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > why does freebsd need pwd.db file? Because it's more secure and faster to do password file lookups against a binary database than a flat file. > also spwd.db file? I guess linux does not have > those files right? It does if you have shadow passwords enabled. > is there any way to get the original passwd file > from pwd.db file? You can't get the origial password in any way, period. It's a 'one-way hash' as we say in the computer business. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message