shadow question
Hi.
Just recently I upgraded my home machine to shadow (with the debian
packages in experimental) to see what would be involved in swapping over
our servers, it went remarkably painlessly. :)
I have two main questions:
1. I was under the impression that daemons needed to be recompiled in order
to work with the shadow suite. Yet after I installed shadow qpopper and
wuftpd (which aren't included in the shadow packages) still work fine. I
assume this is normal but why does it work? I thought that daemons had to
either work with shadow or with normal /etc/passwd but couldn't work with
both...
2. I am running X on my machine. After some initial confusing in not being
able to find the xdm-shadow package on ftp.debian.org I realised that it
had been included in the new version of xbase it all works fine. The one
thing I can't figure out is that when I log into X (via xdm) as root it
works fine. Yet if I try and log in as any other user it doesn't work. I
assume that this is a permission problem somewhere?
Thanks for any help,
Adam.
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