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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 to you
+what 'password shadowing' means. You can read all about that in the doc/HOWTO
+file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one 
+thing you should keep in mind, if you decide 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. You can
+read how you can 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 creastion of npasswd and
+nshadow after you run pwconv. This is an error in the documentation.
+Those two files will be be created. After you run pwconv, /etc/passwd
+will no longer contain the passwords and /etc/shadow will. You don't
+need to rename the npasswd and nshadow files yourself.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+