The /etc/shadow file stores a lot of important settings for passwords on Linux systems, ... Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career.

i got an issue here i think. I needed to do a password recovery on my sparc solaris 8 box. It was successful but in the process I erased the root user from the /etc/shadow file.

RHL and the new Fedora Core allow a passwordless login via single user mode. ••• ...