You should have read permission for the /etc/passwd file. To answer the following questions, use cat or less to display /etc/passwd. Look at the fields of information in /etc/passwd for the users on the local system.

a. Which character is used to separate fields in /etc/passwd?
b. How many fields are used to describe each user?
c. How many users are on the local system?
d. How many different login shells are in use on your system? (Hint: Look
at the last field.)
e. The second field of /etc/passwd stores user passwords in encoded form.
If the password field contains an x, your system uses shadow passwords
and stores the encoded passwords elsewhere. Does your system use
shadow passwords?

a. colon (:); b. seven; c, d, and e are system dependent