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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
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<sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
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<para>
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This package contains the utilities to modify user's passwords, add new
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users/groups, delete users/groups and more. We're not going to explain
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what 'password shadowing' means. All about that can be read in the doc/HOWTO
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file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one
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thing you should keep in mind, if you decide to use shadow support, that
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programs that need to verify passwords (examples are xdm, ftp daemons,
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pop3 daemons, etc) need to be 'shadow-compliant', eg. they need to
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be able to work with shadow'ed passwords.
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</para>
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<para>
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To enable shadow'ed passwords, run the following command:
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</para>
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<blockquote><literallayout>
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<userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput>
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</literallayout></blockquote>
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</sect2>
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