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    • J Offline
      johno881
      last edited by

      Hi Folks

      Just a quick questions regarding passwords on pfsense. I presume these are stored in /etc/master.passwd being a freebsd based system but was wondering about the purpose of the hashes that are stored in the /cf/conf/config.xml file.

      Thanks in advance - its much appreicated

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Everything is stored in the config.xml file. At boot time scripts generate the expected configuration files from it. This means that if edit a file manually it will be overwritten at the next boot.

        Steve

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          johno881
          last edited by

          That makes sense - thanks steve.

          I don't suppose you know what the purpose of the MD5-HASH and NT-HASH are out of interest in addition to the password hash which is replicated in /etc/master.passwd.

          Thanks again for your help

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            I haven't managed to break anything password related yet hence I've not had to look into it!  ::)
            Sorry.

            Steve

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