From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 13:22:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464E514F70 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17062; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:02:01 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:02:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: pirat@center.oaep.go.th Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 pirat@center.oaep.go.th wrote: [...] > cp /etc/passwd . > ls -l > ./john -single passwd > ls -l > cat password.lst [...] > shall he finally know the user's password from the sequence of his action shown > above ? > Nah. There's nothing in /etc/passwd except for the user-names; the real stuff is kept in /etc/master.passwd, which should be root-owned, mode 0600. -- Jonathan Chen | "In prosperity our friends know us; | in adversity we know our friends." | - John Churton Collins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message