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...??? PASSWD(5) NAME ???? passwd, master.passwd -- format of the password file DESCRIPTION ???? The passwd files are the local source of password information.? They can ???? be used in conjunction with the Hesiod domains `passwd' and `uid', and ???? the NIS maps `passwd.byname', `passwd.byuid', `master.passwd.byname', and ???? `master.passwd.byuid', as controlled by nsswitch.conf(5). ???? For consistency, none of these files should ever be modified manually. ???? The master.passwd file is readable only by root, and consists of newline ???? separated records, one per user,...

Is there a program on CentOS which will sort my passwd/group etc. files by username or uid/gid? On Suse I can do this with a sysconfig switch and Suseconfig, is there something similar on RH-based systems? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Hi, everyone, 1. As advised in?Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional message: dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password field '*' Of course neither the password I tried nor the actual password was '*'. That's what's in /etc/passwd, but dovecot isn't just