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author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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diff --git a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 1d60f05e2..000000000 --- a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -<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 creation 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> - |