[NTLUG:Discuss] /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd- differences.

Richard Geoffrion ntlug at rain.lewisville.tx.us
Wed May 29 23:37:46 CDT 2002


To the best of my knowledge, /etc/passwd- is the shadow password file for
/etc/passwd.

What circumstances would cause the '/etc/passwd-' file to be missing entries
that ARE in '/etc/passwd'?

The system seems to be functioning fine.

As always, Slackware is the distro being used here. (running version
8.0/Kernel 2.4.18)  Webmin is also in use.






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