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- <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
- <sect2><title>Configuring Shadow</title>
- <para>This package contains utilities to modify users' passwords, add
- or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain what
- 'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the
- <filename>doc/HOWTO</filename>
- file within the unpacked Shadow source tree. There's one
- thing to keep in mind if you decide to use Shadow support: programs that
- need to verify passwords (for example xdm, ftp daemons, pop3 daemons) need
- to be 'shadow-compliant', that is they need to be able to work with
- shadowed passwords.</para>
- <para>To enable shadowed passwords, run the following command:</para>
- <screen><userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput></screen>
- <para>And to enable shadowed group passwords, run the following
- command:</para>
- <screen><userinput>/usr/sbin/grpconv</userinput></screen>
- <para>Under normal circumstances, you won't have created any passwords yet.
- However, if returning to this section to enable shadowing, you should reset any
- current user passwords with the <command>passwd</command> command or any
- group passwords with the <command>gpasswd</command> command.</para>
- </sect2>
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