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diff --git a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d60f05e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +<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> + |