/etc/passwd

[Yarok]

Hello,

How can I view the password of and account in /etc/passwd?
When I use vipw it displays the passward unreadable.

BR,

Yaron

[Torsten.]

You CANNOT show the password in clear text.



Next time ask hp-ux related questions in hp-ux subforum.

[Yarok]

Ok,
So how can I change a passward if I don't know it?

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

use /sbin/passwd

[Yarok]

Yes, same as passwd [user], thanks.

But is there any way to view a password of an existing user?

[Torsten.]

As said, you CANNOT view the password in clear text.

This is a "one way" encryption.

[Patrick Wallek]

No, you cannot view a password for a user. The password is a one-time hash of what was entered when the user changed his/her password.

The root user can change any users password without knowing the previous one.

[bigsunflower]

It depends.

There is a module (was it module two?) in course h3541s.h.00 talking on that. 

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

root can reset any user password if files is the nsswitch.conf configuration.

So you can't view it, but you can change it.

SEP