Changeset d1fe567

Timestamp:

06/29/2001 05:58:29 PM (23 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

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Children:

d39f322

Parents:

0fe879b

Message:

Removed the 'over-zealous' warning how you have to read the shadow HOWTO
before enabling it. Problems are almost unheard of these days. I left
the doc/HOWTO reference and inserted the command to enable shadow
passwords

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@739 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml

@@ -13 +13 @@
 
 <para>
-Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the
-shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords.
+To enable shadow'ed passwords, run the following command:
 </para>
 
-<para>
-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>
-
-<para>
-The documentation mentions something about the creation of npasswd and
-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. You don't
-need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files yourself.
-</para>
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+        <userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput>
+</literallayout></blockquote>
 
 </sect2>