Re: Shadowconfig
I've already aubmitted a bug report on this - it shouldn't happen. There's
been no reply from the maintainer as yet.
At 01:03 AM 23/05/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>Hi there ... just installed frozen, and I love it. I've been cleaning
>up my log files, config files, and generally poking around ... so I
>tried to enable shadow passwords. Here's what occured:
>
> endor:/etc # shadowconfig on
> grep: xdm: No such file or directory
> sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory
> Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on'
>
>Ok ... why does xdm have to be present? This server is a production web
>server ... 99.9 percent of the work is done via telnet/ssh. Actually
>most of the connections are www, ftp, etc. I guess what I'm saying is
>*I* don't particularly care about X on this machine ... it's not
>supporting dedicated users. If I understood X better I'd probably use
>it and export to an xterm, but for now I want shadow passwords :)
>
>I looked at the script and figured I could comment out the lines
>pertaining to xdm ... but I need some opinions. Is this a bad idea?
>
>(Admitting cluelessness pertaining to all things X)
Regards
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