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Old 07-03-2003
etc/passwd
Can anyone explain the second and third fields in /etc/passwd.
Thanks.
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Old 07-03-2003
man 5 passwd





hth
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Old 07-03-2003
On my system, I have to type man F passwd, otherwise I just get an explanation of how to change my password...

username:[password]:UID:GID:[comment]:directory:[program]

The second and third fields are password and user id:

password
Encrypted password. If this field is null, no password is demanded. If the shadow(F) file exists on the system, then an ``x'' is stored in this field; the encrypted password and password aging information are stored in the shadow file instead.

UID
Numerical user ID.
 
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