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1<sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
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3<para>
4This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
5users/groups, delete users/groups and more. We're not going to explain
6what 'password shadowing' means. All about that can be read 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. It
21describes how to enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether
22shadowing works and if not, how to disable it again.
23</para>
24
25<para>
26The documentation mentions something about the creation of npasswd and
27nshadow after pwconv is run. This is an error in the documentation.
28Those two files will not be created. After pwconv is run, /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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