-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:13:18PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-)
[...] > /etc/passwd and /etc/group are still the last word in identities in these > latter days of password shadowing and gawd alone knows what else? > > (My own research suggests the answer is YES for what users are on the > system and NO for passwords. I'm not doing anything funky like using LDAP > or anything for passwords, just what comes out of the box when you install > Debian) Yes, usually the encrypted passwords are in /etc/shadow (and in its dark sister /etc/shadow-. Typically, if the password field in passwd is 'x', the real thing is in shadow. The gory details in 'man 5 shadow' regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAldUK/IACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYvvQCfQ0xK99STqUu2IXG07Ywvlmy0 un4An2dAkEN1dKbdRxt4skYG/pph4Y72 =XuLf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
