Where are the shadow passwords store ?

[sniper001]

When using shadowed password, I know that your password in /etc/passwd is replace by an x. And your real one is stored somewhere else.
So can it be stored in a file different from /etc/shadow ?

[GbinaryR]

In pwl files.

[ASA]

Originally posted here by GbinaryR
In pwl files.

GbinaryR, he means a *nix based system and you'r talking about a Windoze system...
Windows saves the passwords in the Windoze 9xs directory, in user_name.pwl files.
But password thingy is different in *nixes (eg: Linux),
1. The passwd might be saved in /etc/passwd in plain text (a really old & insecure way)
2. The passwd might be saved in /etc/passwd encrypted. (a reasonably newer but also not too secure)
3. In the /etc/passwd file you may see Username Uid Explanation and an x or * for the password, which is called "shadowing of passwords"

And for your question sniper001, seen the passwds in /etc/shadow on some systems...

[sniper001]

Ok. But what i asked was if there was another place possible to store those shadowed passwords...

[dieterle81]

@sniper

no, the passwords will store only in /etc/shadow

[sniper001]

Okay ! Now im fixed.

[guss]

i downlaoded A shadow program for hacking&cracking can't useit .

[Unleashed]

I once saw a shadowed password in etc/bin/passwd

[cocacola]

i was looking at the files on a password shadowed server. once files are shadowed, doesn't that mean they are impossible to get (without root access)?