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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-06-29 17:58:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-06-29 17:58:29 +0000 |
| commit | d1fe567e5150314126c8139b71195cd2c609a425 (patch) | |
| tree | 66c5b075d6d3b0a2ac84a7f0719f39c74f5ba849 /chapter06 | |
| parent | 0fe879be9f274206a9894d2077391367078ece76 (diff) | |
Removed the 'over-zealous' warning how you have to read the shadow HOWTO
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
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml index 6949f08a2..a10d05784 100644 --- a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml +++ b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml @@ -12,23 +12,12 @@ 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. +To enable shadow'ed passwords, run the following command: </para> -<para> -Now is a very good moment to read chapter 5 of the doc/HOWTO file. It -describes how to 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 pwconv is run. This is an error in the documentation. -Those two files will not be created. After pwconv is run, /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> +<blockquote><literallayout> + <userinput>/usr/sbin/pwconv</userinput> +</literallayout></blockquote> </sect2> |