Re: shadowing passwords?

[Steve Pardee <stevevp pacbell net>]

Bryan,

I was just curious why you would even want to decrypt your passwords.  If you
are logged in as root or if you are in single user mode,  using the passwd
command you can set any of the passwords on the system.  As a security
precaution, at least in my environment, I would want all passwords to be
encrypted.

kindly,
Steve Pardee

"Young, C Bryan" wrote:

> 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
>
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