Re: Shadow passwords

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:48:51AM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:49:17AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > I am busy building two new proxy servers. I installed the first from
> > debian-install CD with the normal installer.  As an exercise in
> > disaster recovery I decided to install the second from a CD I have
> > build with dfsbuild on the first one.  
> > 
> > On the second machine "Tiger" reports: 
> > 
> > <user> is not configured to use shadow passwords ...
> > 
> > How do I change that after an installation that did not ask beforehand
> > about shadow passwords?
> > 
> > I did a  'sudo shadowconfig on' but suspect that will only have an
> > effect on new passwords - or not?
> > 
> man pwconv

Thanks! I totally forgot about that.

Regards
Johann
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