From d1fe567e5150314126c8139b71195cd2c609a425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:58:29 +0000 Subject: 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 --- chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml | 19 ++++--------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06') 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. -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: - -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. - - - -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. - +
+ /usr/sbin/pwconv +
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