Re: shadowed passwords
From: Robert Spielmann (varial@gmx.de)Date: 03/24/02
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From: Robert Spielmann <varial@gmx.de> Date: 24 Mar 2002 18:25:48 GMT
luke@cyber.homeunix.net wrote in news:3c9be445.147375449@news.gte.net:
> The shadowed passwords are located (on Linux not all unix systems)
> in /etc/shadow
> in /etc/passwd the passwords are replaced with x's to signify that the
> password ur looking for is in /etc/shadow
>
> Stats for Shadow:
>
> -rw------- 1 root root **** ****** ** **:** /etc/shadow
>
> example in shadow
>
> guest:$1$myh4shf0$u/R7pBhGtFJiHWkpVm7zP1:11759:99999::::
>
Hi Luke,
my question was: what if the entry in /etc/shadow looks like:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Does the x mean that root canīt login on that machine? I would expect
that if root could login, there would be an encrypted passwd instead of
"x" in /etc/shadow, right?
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