shadowing passwords?

["Young, C Bryan" <cbyoung ukans edu>]

All--

Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm trying to set up shadow passwords on RH6.2.  I am using the rpm of
shadow-utils-19990827-10 which was installed by default on my system --
although passwords were not shadowed by default.

The HOWTO that accompanies the shadow-utils doesn't match the behavior of
the package.  The HOWTO states that /usr/sbin/pwconv should generate
/etc/npasswd and /etc/nshadow files that should then be copied by root to
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.  HOWEVER, when I used /usr/sbin/pwconv, the
only change I noted was the creation of a /etc/shadow file (and it looks
okay).  The passwd file was not altered (still contains encoded passwords).

Can someone point me to the documentation I should be following for this?
Or, can someone tell me what I need to do to remove the encoded passwords
from /etc/passwd?

Thanks again,

Bryan