From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 10:03:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00276 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00231 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA00492; Tue, 2 Jun 98 13:00:50 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id NAA27491; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:00:48 -0400 Message-Id: <19980602130048.A27431@mstar.astro.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:00:48 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Wyatt Nordstrom , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is the shadow password file? References: <199806021541.IAA15891@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806021541.IAA15891@hub.freebsd.org>; from Wyatt Nordstrom on Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 11:40:00AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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