PASSWD.CONF(5)

NAME
passwd.conf - format of the password configuration file

DESCRIPTION
The /etc/passwd.conf file describes the configuration of the password cipher used to encrypt local or YP passwords. The passwd.conf consists of stanzas.

There are default and user specific stanzas. If no user stanza to a specific option is available the default stanza is used.

Some of the fields and their possible values that can appear in this file are:

localcipher
    The cipher to use for local passwords. Possible values are: 'old', 'newsalt' or 'blowfish,<rounds>' where rounds is a value between 4 and 31.

ypcipher
    The cipher to use for YP passwords. The possible values are the same as for localcipher.

To retrieve information from this file use pw_getconf(3).

EXAMPLE
To use blowfish as local cipher but for root some more rounds and the old unix crypt as YP cipher:

default:

localcipher = blowfish,4

ypcipher = old

root:

localcipher = blowfish,7

SEE ALSO
passwd(1), passwd(5), pw_getconf(3)