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  1. <sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
  2. <para>This package contains utilities to modify users's passwords, add
  3. or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain
  4. what 'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the doc/HOWTO
  5. file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one
  6. thing to keep in mind if you decide to use shadow support: that
  7. programs that need to verify passwords (for example xdm, ftp daemons,
  8. pop3 daemons) need to be 'shadow-compliant', that is they need to
  9. be able to work with shadow'ed passwords.</para>
  10. <para>To enable shadow'ed passwords, run the following command:</para>
  11. <para><screen><userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput></screen></para>
  12. </sect2>