Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:00:48 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Wyatt Nordstrom <wyattn@nortel.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is the shadow password file? Message-ID: <19980602130048.A27431@mstar.astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806021541.IAA15891@hub.freebsd.org>; from Wyatt Nordstrom on Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 11:40:00AM -0400 References: <199806021541.IAA15891@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 11:40:00AM -0400, Wyatt Nordstrom wrote: > Sorry for asking such a simple question. Where does the shadow > password file exist. I tried a quick search with find. > > find / -name "*shadow*" -print > > It did not turn up the file. "man 5 passwd" reveals: # FreeBSD uses a shadow password scheme: users' encrypted passwords are # stored only in /etc/master.passwd and /etc/spwd.db, which are readable # and writable only by the superuser. > Most docs say the file should be /etc/shadow. I do not seem to have this file. Hopefully you are referring to Unix references in general. If any of the FreeBSD documentation makes this error, please notify freebsd-doc@freebsd.org! -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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