On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:36:12 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Questions:
>
> What is 'getent' ? It's a tool to do wat exactly? I can sort of see what
> it did, from what I can see it made a complete mocaray of security.
getent --help
getent --help
Usage: getent [OPTION...] database [key ...]
getent - get entries from administrative database.
-s, --service=CONFIG Service configuration to be used
-?, --help Give this help list
--usage Give a short usage message
-V, --version Print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional
for any corresponding short options.
Supported databases:
ahosts aliases ethers group hosts netgroup networks passwd protocols rpc
services shadow
How did it make a mockery (sp)? it didn't actually display or return a
password. It is next to impossible to easily re-create the password from
the encrypted form saved in the password database. getent only returns
the encrypted version.
man shadow
man encrypt
RTFM Don
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
