From b08f4096533577934b885fa9df41d3881d141612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:26:52 +0000 Subject: Initial XML commit git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@174 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml | 34 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 34 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml (limited to 'chapter06/config-shadowpwd.sgml') 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 @@ -Configuring Shadow Password Suite - - -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. - - - -Shadow'ed passwords are not enabled by default. Simply installing the -shadow password suite does not enable shadow'ed passwords. - - - -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. - - - -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. - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf