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- <sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
- <para>
- This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
- users/groups, delete users/groups and more. We're 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
- programs that need to verify passwords (examples are xdm, ftp daemons,
- pop3 daemons, etc) need to be 'shadow-compliant', eg. they need to
- be able to work with shadow'ed passwords.
- </para>
- <para>
- To enable shadow'ed passwords, run the following command:
- </para>
- <blockquote><literallayout>
- <userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput>
- </literallayout></blockquote>
- </sect2>
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