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Will anytime /etc/passwd change due to 'pwconv' command?
In my understanding, 'pwconv' command synchronizes the /etc/shadow
file according to the entries in /etc/passwd i.e it results into
changes only in /etc/shadow file and not in /etc/passwd due to the
invocation of 'pwconv' command. Am I right? In any case, does 'pwconv'
also result into some changes in /etc/passwd file?
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qazmlp #2 Will anytime /etc/passwd change due to 'pwconv' command?
In my understanding, 'pwconv' command synchronizes the /etc/shadow
file according to the entries in /etc/passwd i.e it results into
changes only in /etc/shadow file and not in /etc/passwd due to the
invocation of 'pwconv' command. Am I right? In any case, does 'pwconv'
also result into some changes in /etc/passwd file?
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Eric Sosman #3 Re: Will anytime /etc/passwd change due to 'pwconv' command?
qazmlp wrote:
Any actual hashed passwords in /etc/passwd will be> In my understanding, 'pwconv' command synchronizes the /etc/shadow
> file according to the entries in /etc/passwd i.e it results into
> changes only in /etc/shadow file and not in /etc/passwd due to the
> invocation of 'pwconv' command. Am I right? In any case, does 'pwconv'
> also result into some changes in /etc/passwd file?
replaced with 'x'. Ordinarily, this only happens the
very first time pwconv is run.
You've posed a couple questions about making changes
to the "user account" files. What are you trying to do,
and is there a reason you can't do it through standard
interfaces? The days of hand-editing /etc/passwd are
(or ought to be) behind us ...
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