shadow¶
Local system users encrypted passwords and related information. Please note, that you usually need superuser rights to access /etc/shadow.
Platform support¶
Please be aware that some queries can only be run against certain platforms. Below is a list of the supported platforms that this query supports. Zercurity will automatically pause queries from running if errors are detected. Running a query against an unsupported platform will result in the following error: no such table: shadow
- Linux
Table schema¶
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
password_status | TEXT | Password status |
hash_alg | TEXT | Password hashing algorithm |
last_change | BIGINT | Date of last password change (starting from UNIX epoch date) |
min | BIGINT | Minimal number of days between password changes |
max | BIGINT | Maximum number of days between password changes |
warning | BIGINT | Number of days before password expires to warn user about it |
inactive | BIGINT | Number of days after password expires until account is blocked |
expire | BIGINT | Number of days since UNIX epoch date until account is disabled |
flag | BIGINT | Reserved |
username | TEXT | Username |
Query examples¶
select * from shadow where username = 'root'