<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I would expect not, because you can kill a line in /etc/passwd and have it immediately available. (or gone :) )</div><div><br></div><div>--j</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Terry Bailey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>After booting, do copies of the passwd and shadow files reside in RAM?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Terry Bailey<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>