[SATLUG] Red Hat 6.2 and /etc/passwd

[Wayne Walker]

I misread your question and answered something else.

"but root's password in"  

root's password should also be in /etc/shadow.

Wayne

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:48:56AM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
> When did Red Hat begin moving all hashed passwords into /etc/shadow
> instead of /etc/passwd?  I have found some older systems that have
> everyone but root's password in /etc/shadow, and was curious if there
> is some technical reason for that, or if it's just misconfigured.
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