User Feedback :: Password Questions

I have a frugal install.
1. How do I give user DSL a password?
2. I created a user"joe" and gave it a password. I save /home/joe in the filetool.list. When I do a reboot, the passowd for 'joe" is lost.
3. whare are the passwords for users stored?

Thanks for the help.

Passwords, user data, etc. are saved in /etc/passwd. Which, of course, is in the frugal image, so they are lost on reboot.

I think there is some user data also stored in /etc/passwd (although not the password itself, oddly enough). It might not be vital info though...used by finger, according to the passwd man page.

I did not see any passwords in /etc/passwd. Could they be someplace else?
OR are you saying that I cannot have users with passwords in a frugal install?

Thanks for all the help!

Oh...sorry to make you wait. I dunno why i overlooked the fact that knight gave you an incorrect filename...i must be reading in typos lately...

The password is stored in /etc/shadow.

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