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ashishravande 05-15-2010 04:44 AM
what is the purpose of having " /etc/shadow " file
 
we can save the users password in /etc/password file itself.

then why a special file /etc/shadow is created to save the encripted password of users.

catkin 05-15-2010 04:53 AM
Better security. /etc/passwd (not password) needs to be world-readable while /etc/shadow can and should be readable only by root (and maybe by group shadow -- which exists but has no members, at least on my Slackware 13.0 system).

onebuck 05-15-2010 08:21 AM
Hi,

Welcome to LQ!

You can 'man shadow' to get useful information.

:hattip:


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