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Re: a problem with usercfg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Oct 28 12:56:23 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:52:40 GMT."
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:22:57 -0500
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Antti Kaunisto writes:
>I enabled shadow passwords with Rembrandt, and usercfg worked fine
>when I ran "pwconv5" after every time I added a user. Now I've updated
>to 4.0 and its usercfg recognizes shadow passwords and doesn't work
>any more. How to get around this problem? Must I disable shadow passwords,
>and how do I do it? I won't certainly add users manually.
If you edit /usr/bin/usercfg and remove the phrase at the end that
looks like this:
if {[file isfile "/etc/shadow"]} {
rhs_error_dialog "The User and Group Configurator does not support shadow passwords."
exit 1
}
then usercfg will act as it did in Rembrandt.
michaelkjohnson
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