[SATLUG] Red Hat 6.2 and /etc/passwd

[Henry Pugsley]

On Nov 12, 2007 11:20 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 11:16 AM, Henry Pugsley <henry.pugsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks, this was the information I was looking for.  I started using
> Red Hat around version 7, so I came on board after /etc/shadow for all
> accounts was the default.

Debian has a nifty tool called shadowconfig that moves the hashes back
and forth en masse .. not sure if Red Hat has something similar.

-Henry