Shadow file and nobodyfiles?

[drtduarte]

Dear Friends,

I found the files "shadow" and "nobodyfiles" in the home directory, can anyone explain to me what this files are for?

Regards
David

[thewebhosting]

shadow file stores user password in encrypted format. It also contains some additional properties like username, last password changed, expiration date of password, etc.

nobody is a file ownership in linux. Files with nobody ownership can only be accessed by root.