<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>have you been able to change it with passwd? Or, alternatively, can you go back to one of the older versions?</div><div><br></div><div>--j</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Terry Bailey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a server in a data center and am not allowed to login with <br>root because the password has been corrupted. I thought that if <br>these files were cached, then a power down and reboot would fix it.<br><br>At 11:36 AM 6/17/2008, you wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:09 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">After booting, do copies of the passwd and shadow files reside in RAM?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Meaning leftovers from the previous boot or what?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> In principle, sure. They are simple files which will be <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cached by the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">file system when they are accessed. The passwd file itself isn't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">particularly sensitive. The shadow file could be sensitive but, as long<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as people are using and enforcing strong passwords, that should be too<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">bad since only root can access kmem on the running system. Anyone with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">access to kmem can be presumed to have access to shadow.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> What's the problem that is concerning you?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Terry Bailey<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Mike<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | <a href="mailto:mhw@WittsEnd.com">mhw@WittsEnd.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | <a href="http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/">http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ale mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></blockquote><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>