[4906] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 4.0 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Mon Nov 18 01:22:32 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 01:19:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: Johnie Stafford <jms@pobox.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611180420.WAA01186@kb5yvf.arc.usl.edu>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> 3. .rpmsave/.rpmorig - A nitpik, I thought this would be fixed by
> now. Some rpms save their config files with .rpmsave others with
> .rpmorig.
There is a reason they are different, I do believe. Ask rpm-list for
elaborations.
> 7. PAM - Its short on documentation. I've read all the files in
> /usr/doc/pam* and while it does describe the /etc/pam.conf file very
> well, it doesn't describe the modules at all. Without knowing what the
> modules do, I don't see how anyone could modify the pam.conf file.
If you get the .src.rpm, there are README's for most of the modules (which
should have been included in the pam package, probably).
> 8. Shadow - On a related note, how do I do shadow passwords? Is it
> simply to run pwconv5? I'm guessing here since the Shadow-utils
> package doesn't include a man page for pwconv5. Are any changes to
> /etc/pam.conf required to do shadow?
To shadow things:
pwconv5
chmod 000 /etc/passwd- /etc/shadow-
Hope this helps,
-- Elliot
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