Which file defines all users on your system?

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / anand au

/etc/passwd file contain all users information

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / sekar s b

/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / hari

/etc/passwd alone has the user's list

whereas /home has mail user's list and
/etc/shadow has password details of users. a user can be
created without password so total users is only
within /etc/passwd

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / gaurav kumar

#/etc/passwd (will store the user information).
#ll /home (this is the by default home dir. of the users
without home directory user can't login in the system).

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / shams p khan

/etc/passwd file define all user information

/etc/passwd 7 clone seprated field

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

1.username
2.password
3.UID
4.GID
5.User comman information
6.User home directory
7.Login shell

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / c.raja

if the system users centralized login methods like nis, hesoid, ldap.

We can get the user informations using the following command
#getent passwd.

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / ashish pandey

/home

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Which file defines all users on your system?..

Answer / gokul pradeep

ls /home

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