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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. I'm 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 a user should keep in mind, if he decides 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>
- Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the
- shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords.
- </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. A user doesn't
- need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files himself.
- </para>
- </sect2>
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