Searching username in a password file
 

How do i search for a username within a shadow password file? Many thanks in advance :-)

Not sure I follow, a quick glance over my /etc/shadow file definitely shows, in plain text, the usernames...

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Thanks for replying MasterC. Well the shadow file i'm dealing with has lots and lots of usernames. Ofcourse, I can go through each one of them and try to find the specific username but I figured that would be too much of a hassle. So I was wondering if there was any shortcut? I tried googling but nothing helpful came up.

Open up the file, in say, vim and type:
/username

This will search that file for 'username'.

HTH

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Thanks again MasterC. Would do :-)

Glad I could help ;)

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