How to create shadow passwords manually.........

[M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com>]

My Etch installer doesn't finish the installation, so i have to just reboot, 
and create my own passwords and such from the shell, and a few other things 
by hand.

But these are in /etc/passwd There is no /etc/shadow file.

Apart from creating the /etc/shadow file, how do i create shadow passwords?

TIA
Charlie
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