passwd command modifies /etc/password?
 

Hi!I was just creating manually a new user in slack 12.2.
I created a profile on /etc/passwd, putting an x on the password space.
when I tried to used the passwd command to encode my new password on /etc/shadow, nothing is written on shadow; instead the encoded string appears on /etc/password.
Could someone explain me why?Thanks

Since you didn't use adduser or useradd to create an account that has the password shadow suite installed, you need to run pwconv to change the encoded password in /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/pwconv

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Passwor...O-7.html#ss7.1