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Old 08-06-2009, 11:00 AM   #1
pantuflo
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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
 
Old 08-06-2009, 12:18 PM   #2
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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
Last edited by bsdunix; 08-06-2009 at 12:41 PM. Reason: brief explaination
 
  


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