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1<sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
2
3<para>
4This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
5users/groups, delete users/groups and more. I'm not going to explain to you
6what 'password shadowing' means. You can read all about that in the doc/HOWTO
7file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one
8thing you should keep in mind, if you decide to use shadow support, that
9programs that need to verify passwords (examples are xdm, ftp daemons,
10pop3 daemons, etc) need to be 'shadow-compliant', eg. they need to
11be able to work with shadow'ed passwords.
12</para>
13
14<para>
15Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the
16shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords.
17</para>
18
19<para>
20Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. You can
21read how you can enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether shadowing
22works and if not, how to disable it again.
23</para>
24
25<para>
26The documentation mentions something about the creastion of npasswd and
27nshadow after you run pwconv. This is an error in the documentation.
28Those two files will be be created. After you run pwconv, /etc/passwd
29will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. You don't
30need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files yourself.
31</para>
32
33</sect2>
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