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Thursday, 10 January 2013

overview of /etc/passwd file in Linux ..

There are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file.

username, UID, GID, comment, home directory, command

The seven fields required for each line in the /etc/passwd file are username, UID, GID, comment, home directory, command. Each of these fields must be separated by a colon even if they are empty

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