Changeset 81a47c0 for chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml

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03/19/2001 04:02:50 PM (23 years ago)

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Thomas Balu Walter <tw@…>

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• chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml

@@ -3 +3 @@
 <para>
 This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
-users/groups, delete users/groups and more. I'm not going to explain to you
-what 'password shadowing' means. You can read all about that in the doc/HOWTO
+users/groups, delete users/groups and more. I'm not going to explain 
+what 'password shadowing' means. All about that can be read in the doc/HOWTO
 file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one 
-thing you should keep in mind, if you decide to use shadow support, that 
+thing a user should keep in mind, if he decides to use shadow support, that 
 programs that need to verify passwords (examples are xdm, ftp daemons, 
 pop3 daemons, etc) need to be 'shadow-compliant', eg. they need to
@@ -18 +18 @@
 
 <para>
-Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. You can
-read how you can enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether shadowing 
+Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. It 
+describes 
+how to enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether shadowing 
 works and if not, how to disable it again.
 </para>
@@ -25 +26 @@
 <para>
 The documentation mentions something about the creation of npasswd and
-nshadow after you run pwconv. This is an error in the documentation.
-Those two files will be be created. After you run pwconv, /etc/passwd
-will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. You don't
-need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files yourself.
+nshadow after pwconv is run. This is an error in the documentation.
+Those two files will not be created. After pwconv is run, /etc/passwd
+will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. A user doesn't
+need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files himself.
 </para>