Question

All the user information is stored in _____

(a) etc/passwd

(b) bin/passwd

(c) bin/users/passwd

(d) etc/shadow

I had been asked this question in an internship interview.

My doubt stems from Administrator Specific Commands and Privileges in division Essential Shell Programming of Unix

Answer 1

Correct option is (a) etc/passwd

Easy explanation: All the user information except the password encryption is stored in /etc/passwd. The encryption itself is stored in /etc/shadow. There are seven fields in /etc/passwd.