[SATLUG] Red Hat 6.2 and /etc/passwd

[Henry Pugsley]

Shadow passwords were not always the default, but you could enable
them after the installation.  Since root is created during the
install, the password hash was put in /etc/passwd.  After the the
install, any new accounts would get their password hashes put in
/etc/shadow, or they would get moved when you change the password for
the account.  If you change the password for root on those servers,
the hash will probably end up in /etc/shadow when you are done.

-Henry

On Nov 12, 2007 8:48 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> 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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