shadow file?
 

Hi all,

I understand that most linux distributions shadow passwords these days. A question though...

When I log in as root and do cat /etc/shadow, only the root password has the password hash filled in. Where are all the other user's hashes stored?

Cheers,

-TJM

they are (typically) stored in /etc/shadow... is your distro redhat or something? perhaps they moved the hashes elsewhere?

ok... some more info:

only root is corectly filled in.
most of the others entries have either * or !! instead of a hash.
of the ~100 or so other users of the system, their usernames are not even listed :(

Cheers,

-TJM

you can try pwconv (if the user passwords appear to be stored in /etc/password) to convert an existing /etc/password over to /etc/shadow

Are you talking about system users? like mail, apache, nobody, etc?
They won't have a password set by default... They might have something like !! or * where the password should be...
Check this page out:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/li...e-formats.html

Just watch out for ones that have username:: because they do not require a password to log in.