Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

[Joachim Backes]

Hi all,

adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files
never removed:

/etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow-

Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there
another reason for this?

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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