What is the difference between grep root/etc/passwd and getent passwd root
50464
read files directly VS getent
52721
What does the ./ mean (dot slash) in linux?
103003
Recursive grep vs find / -type f -exec grep {} \; Which is more efficient/faster?
15439
How to find the most common name in passwd file
143096
Sudoers NOPASSWD for single executable but allowing others
52906
Where can I find a reference to the format of the comment field (field 5) of the /etc/passwd file?
93113
What is the difference between $path and $PATH (lowercase versus uppercase) with zsh?
84438
Why 'mkpasswd -m sha-512' produce different result every time it is called?
68398
PHP exec() vs system() vs passthru()
28333
Why can't sudo redirect stdout to /etc/file, but sudo 'nano' or 'cp' can?
28353
On what systems is //foo/bar different from /foo/bar?
71306
Which user's password does `sudo` asks for?
24487
What's the difference between "Service" and "/etc/init.d/"?
22069
What is the difference between sudo X and running X as root?
28812
What's all those users in the /etc/passwd file?
115669
Why does process substitution result in a file called /dev/fd/63 which is a pipe?
4322
Why do ssh operations always ask for passphrase? (with ed25519)