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| 1 | <sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
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| 3 | <para>
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| 4 | This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
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| 5 | users/groups, delete users/groups and more. I'm not going to explain
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| 6 | what 'password shadowing' means. All about that can be read in the doc/HOWTO
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| 7 | file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one
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| 8 | thing a user should keep in mind, if he decides to use shadow support, that
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| 9 | programs that need to verify passwords (examples are xdm, ftp daemons,
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| 10 | pop3 daemons, etc) need to be 'shadow-compliant', eg. they need to
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| 11 | be able to work with shadow'ed passwords.
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| 12 | </para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <para>
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| 15 | Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the
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| 16 | shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords.
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| 17 | </para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>
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| 20 | Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. It
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| 21 | describes
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| 22 | how to enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether shadowing
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| 23 | works and if not, how to disable it again.
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| 24 | </para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>
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| 27 | The documentation mentions something about the creation of npasswd and
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| 28 | nshadow after pwconv is run. This is an error in the documentation.
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| 29 | Those two files will not be created. After pwconv is run, /etc/passwd
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| 30 | will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. A user doesn't
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| 31 | need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files himself.
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| 32 | </para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | </sect2>
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