From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 20:34:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971DB37B403 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15oGJv-000IA0-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:34:11 +1200 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f923YAr93093; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:34:10 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:34:10 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: shadow passwords Message-ID: <20011002153410.A92785@jonc.itouch> References: <20011001232941.5db52eb7.nmace85@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011001232941.5db52eb7.nmace85@yahoo.com>; from nmace85@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote: > does freebsd support shadow passwords? FreeBSD does not show the encrypted password in /etc/passwd. It's stored in /etc/master.passwd, and the only way you can see it is if you've got root privileges. And if someone has root, the system's open to them. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message