Re: Shadow passwords

From: John Bailo (jbailo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/08/03

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    Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:59:55 GMT

    On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:00:07 +0000, Bill Unruh wrote:

    > Why do you not want shadow passwords? They are safer, (although harder
    > to test for bad passwords so there is a greater danger of your users
    > using OK for a password.)

    When shadow was enabled none of the new accounts I created with useradd
    would work. It threw an error that said User Authentication Error.

    I spent a day trying to fix it and ended up googling an article that said
    something about PAM not being adequately configured ( in
    /usr/pam.d/passwd ) and/or shadow passwords not working right.

    Now I'm not sure what to do...

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