Re: Question about the passwd file

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:43:27 -0500

"John Bailo" <jbailo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:a7f1ce3406ed666d8bea5fd656f1000a@news.teranews.com...

> 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 (!)

Hmm. Have you tried running "pwunconv" and "pwconv" to switch things back
and forth from using /etc/shadow?

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