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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. I'm 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 a user should keep in mind, if he decides 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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Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the
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shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords.
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</para>
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<para>
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Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. It
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describes
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how to enable shadow'ed passwords, how to test whether shadowing
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works and if not, how to disable it again.
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</para>
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<para>
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The documentation mentions something about the creation of npasswd and
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nshadow after pwconv is run. This is an error in the documentation.
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Those two files will not be created. After pwconv is run, /etc/passwd
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will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. A user doesn't
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need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files himself.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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