OSX Password File?

[Beller0ph1]

I work for a lab on campus at UW-Madison that is the first with OSX machines. We use the Radmind utility to keep the machines up to date. I want to change the password for one of the accounts on the machines all at once. For those not familiar (and I'll even include myself in this group) with Radmind, it looks for files on a client machine, then syncs with the server. We've tried a few times by changing the password on the client, and uploading a few files to the server to see if that fixes it. So far, no dice. Anyone happen to know where the user passwords are located on an OSX machine? Thanks a bunch.

 

[n0cmonkey]

/etc/master.passwd isn't there?

 

[Beller0ph1]

There is...we tried it, but I don't recall if it worked or not. Thanks for the reply though, I'll see if it works tomorrow when I go in.

 

[n0cmonkey]

[localhost:~] n0c% sudo more /etc/master.passwd
Password:
##
# User Database
#
# Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user
# mode. At other times this information is handled by lookupd. By default,
# lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will not be consulted
# unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.
##

Look into netinfo. I think Mac OS X uses LDAP for authentication.