While users can change their own passwords, select a different default shell and make changes to their environment settings (like their search paths), they cannot—at least not without root ...

On Debian GNU/Linux, is it legitimate to have entries in /etc/passwd that lack corresponding entries in /etc/shadow? I am managing a large cluster where the home directories are automounted and users ...

i got an issue here i think. I needed to do a password recovery on my sparc solaris 8 box. It was successful but in the process I erased the root user from the /etc/shadow file. i realized my mistake ...