 | | The password file, /etc/passwd, stores most of the commonly maintained information about each user of the system, including login name, user ID number, full name, home directory, and preferred login shell. On older versions of UNIX, this file also stores each user's encrypted password. However, most newer versions of UNIX have taken the encrypted password out of this file, storing it in another file called a shadow password file that is readable only by the superuser. This is described in the following section. | |
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