User Accounts

Comments

• gautam

  February 2002

  : what's the FreeBSD command for determing/viewing all user accounts on the system?
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  : I created an accound and forgot the password, how do I get (i'm root too)
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  The simplest way I know of checking if a user exists is to do a simple grep
  
  grep "username" /etc/passwd
  
  This will search the password file for the username. However the password is generally encrypted.
  
  If your only need is to change the password - you might want to look at this
  http://www.bsdi.com/bsdi-man?proto=1.1&apropos=0&msection=ALL&query=passwd
  
  
• Danty

  February 2002

  anyhow, in what file and where the encrypted password is stored?
  
• gautam

  February 2002

  : anyhow, in what file and where the encrypted password is stored?
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  I think that would be /etc/shadow
  
  
• hoover

  August 2002

  anyway,if i m not mistaken, root can use <$ sudo passwd (username)> to change the users passwd right? try it.. hp-ux can run it but i m not sure in freebsd