Re: Question about the passwd file

From: John Bailo (jbailo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/05/03 

Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:19:52 GMT

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:01:38 +0000, John Bailo wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:26:35 -0500, jmh wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> John Bailo wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> HOWEVER, once I took the X out of the second place in /etc/passwd the
>>> passwords started working (!)
>>
>> Out of curiosity is the password filed in /etc/passwd now
>> populated?
>>
>> jmh
>
> Ok, here's the situation and it continues to perplex me.
>
> What happens now, is that if I create a user with useradd and assign a
> password with the -p flag it creates the user, but I cannot ssh to that
> user.
>
> HOWEVER, if I delete the password from /etc/passwd I can then login as
> that user BUT it requires the password that was initially created with
> useradd (!!!)
>
> I have switched off shadow and md5 authentication from authconfig.
>
> So my question is WHERE DO THESE PASSWORDS RESIDE ???

Ok, more information:

I guess it still IS using shadow passwords. I renamed shadow to
shadow.20031201 thinking it would eliminate it -- BUT it looks like shadow
is still authenticating using the new shadow file (!)

It's still odd since I definitely switched off shadow using authconfig (!)

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