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Which file defines all users on your system?
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Answer / hari
/etc/passwd alone has the user's list
whereas /home has mail user's list and
/etc/shadow has password details of users. a user can be
created without password so total users is only
within /etc/passwd
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Answer / gaurav kumar
#/etc/passwd (will store the user information).
#ll /home (this is the by default home dir. of the users
without home directory user can't login in the system).
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Answer / shams p khan
/etc/passwd file define all user information
/etc/passwd 7 clone seprated field
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
1.username
2.password
3.UID
4.GID
5.User comman information
6.User home directory
7.Login shell
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Answer / c.raja
if the system users centralized login methods like nis, hesoid, ldap.
We can get the user informations using the following command
#getent passwd.
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