From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 05:21:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA03743 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-13.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA03738 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA22295; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:21:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199607171221.IAA22295@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol From: Branson Matheson To: Red Barchetta cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: master.passwd vs. shadow? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:11:12 EDT." <2.2.32.19960717031112.002cb818@pegasus.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:21:46 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- 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?