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Re: PAM and shadow passwords - How do I enable it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Zedalis)
Wed Oct 23 10:16:51 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:12:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
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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?
Not a good idea, and I'm sure there are workarounds for your problems.
But, I believe that the shadow-utils package has a undo program that is
called "pwunconv" that makes a standard UNIX passwd file called "npasswd"
from the shadow and passwd files. Read the man page for pwunconv
and passwd. In fact look at all the man pages in the shadow-utils
package, particularly the login.defs man page which in addition to the
pam.conf files may have the answer to fix some of your problems. This
is one of the reasons that RedHat hasn't supported shadow before, it
affects almost everything. I take my hat off to RedHat and PAM that
the current transition is so relatively painless.
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