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Re: PAM and shadow passwords - How do I enable it?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Wed Oct 23 00:10:54 1996

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <326D93A3.4861FD3B@chaos.uark.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Paul Ryan Kuykendall wrote:

> Ok, now for another question regarding shadow passwords... How do you
> DISable them?
> 
> I enabled shadow passwords and now I am unable to get the 'ls --color'
> working, 
> (it displays the directory listing fine, just no color), plus my
> .Xclients file
> is not being read, it disabled all my aliases in my .bashrc file, and
> generally
> hasn't been nice to my configuration.  This all happens as an ordinary
> user.  As
> root all the aliases work just fine.  It's just as a normal user that it
> goes
> out the window.

Make sure /etc/passwd is mode 644

-- Elliot

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