FC4 and Shadow Passwords

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:21 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> 
> > I've got an FC4 install with shadow-utils installed but the passwords
> > are being stored in /etc/passwd and there is no /etc/shadow file.  Any
> > ideas?
> 
> Examine /etc/sysconfig/authconfig and check that there is a line like this:
> 
> USESHADOW=yes
> 
> Also check perms on that file are root:root and 644.
> 
shadow must have perms 400 and passwd needs perms of 644.

If the passwords are in the passwd file it will need to be converted by
using pwconv to create the proper entries in the shadow file.  See man
pwconv for details on operation.

A question I have is how the system got that way?  The default config
for Fedora is to use shadow passwords.  Something must have been changed
to tell it not to use shadow.

> -Andy
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