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Why do I find the passwords of the users, albeit encrypted, in the passwd NIS map?

April 26, 2017albeit encrypted map NIS passwd passwords Users

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Why do I find the passwords of the users, albeit encrypted, in the passwd NIS map?

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• A: NIS, formerly known as “Yellow Pages”, was first implemented on SunOS 4.x (now known as Solaris 1.x). Solaris 1.x didn’t have a separate shadow file. Instead, the passwords were stored in the second column of /etc/passwd, the same location where they shine up in your passwd NIS map, for reasons of backwards compatibility. This is also the reason, why you wouldn’t find a shadow NIS map.