Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:21:46 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Red Barchetta <paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master.passwd vs. shadow? Message-ID: <199607171221.IAA22295@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:11:12 EDT." <2.2.32.19960717031112.002cb818@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
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-------- Red Barchetta uttered with conviction: > I have been a UNIX user for about 2 years now, but I just recently > installed FreeBSD on my own system. I do quite a bit of work o n > Sparcs, so I am familiar with the concept of a shadowed passwd file, > and it appears to me that the FreeBSD system, which keeps the > "meaningful" passwords in master.passwd and makes it readable only > to root. Ca n someone explain to me just how this is implemented? Checkout the manpage on vipw(8) .. it will then point you to the pwd_mkdb(8) manpage and things are 'splained in there. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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