From the course: Linux CentOS 7: User and Group Management
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User account data file - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux CentOS 7: User and Group Management
User account data file
- [Narrator] The file in Linux that stores user account details is etc/passwd. Let's view this file by opening a terminal, by going to Applications, Favorites, Terminal. I'm going to make my terminal fullscreen, and bump my font size. Now type in less /etc/passwd and hit Enter. We can see that we have one line for user account. The etc password file has seven colon-delimited columns. Let's take a look at each one. The first column is the user name. User names in Linux are case-sensitive. The administrator's username is root, and should be the first line of the /etc/passwd file. The second column shows the encoded password, or if we're using the Shadow Suite, there will be an x here, telling us that the password is encoded, and stored in the etc/shadow file, instead of the etc/passwd file. The etc/passwd file is world-readable, so before we started using the Shadow Suite, the encoded passwords were visible to anyone. In the past, this wasn't a problem, as the passwords were encoded…
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