In Java, how would you parse useful information from a text file. This is the guidlines:

"Lines in /etc/passwd have the following format, with fields separated by colons: account:encrypted password data:uid:gid:GCOS-field:homedir:shell

For example, this line represents the account for Tyler Jones. The salt is "

I need to be able to have the user name in a seperate string, and the salt/password. A normal example looks like this:

"michael:atbWfKL4etk4U:500:500:Michael Ferris:/home/michael:/bin/bash" 

I need the information before the first :, then I need the 2nd piece of info for compare. The last thing I need is the name of the user (example here is Michael Ferris).