From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 7 16:37:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02290 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 16:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02241 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 16:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12010; Thu, 7 May 1998 16:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd011996; Thu May 7 23:32:58 1998 Message-ID: <355244A6.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:32:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schwenk CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD does shadow passwords all teh time look in /etc/passwd. notice.. "look ma, no passwords" they are in /etc/master.passwd but only root can read it. also there are ndb versions of the files for faster access that the utilities use. (they don't use the passwd file directly, that's for compatibility only). see pwd.db, spwd.db for the binary db versions of the files use vipw to do all editing... it keeps them in sync. julian Peter Schwenk wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm wondering: does FreeBSD do shadow passwords? I'd like to use an > /etc/shadow file, but there's no mention in the man pages. Is this > missing from FreeBSD? > > - Peter Schwenk - schwenk@voicenet.com > - > - Running FreeBSD? You should be. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message