[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] system/skeleton: add the shadow-group file

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Dec 31 17:18:24 UTC 2012


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:26:02 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> /etc/gshadow is to /etc/group what /etc/shadow is to /etc/passwd.

Could you give some more details? I understand /etc/shadow as opposed
to /etc/passwd, but I don't see the point of /etc/gshadow since groups
don't have passwords.

Thomas
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