Re: shadowing passwords?

["Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>]

		Hi Bryan,

> 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.

 Shadowing passwords is an installation option. You must have overseen it.
 Run "setup" and enable shadowing of passwords under "Authentication 
configuration". Not sure if that updates your passwd and shadow files. If not, 
try removing a password in the passwd file by an "x".
 Note that if you screw up you should be able to get into your system by 
booting into single user mode (linux single on the boot prompt). I assume you 
did not configure lilo to disable booting into single user mode. Check this 
before you proceed :).
 Fyi, /etc/pam.d/passwd on my 6.2 firewall (shadowing and md5 enabled):
[leonard firewall leonard]$ cat /etc/pam.d/passwd
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok md5 
shadow
(the last "shadow" should be on the same line as md5!)

					Bye,

					Leonard.