> Is there shadow password support for debian yet? (Or PAM?) Yes. There is an experimental shadow package, and a libpam has recently been uploaded (expect it to be visible in a few days).
> Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each > user be in a group containing only themselves, so the umask can be set to > 002? I see in /etc/group that each user does get placed in their own > group. If you want to, you can change this behaviour. (USERHOMES var in /etc/adduser.conf) > Does dpkg have any way to verify a package? If anyone's familiar with rpm > -V, that's what I'm looking for.. something that can list what files in a > package have been modified since it was installed. I think I'm out of > luck here :-( dpkg does know about "configuration files" per package. If you've modified them, and upgrade to a package with a new version of that config file, dpkg will prompt you to choose between keeping your current file, or switching to the new default. You can do "dpkg -s <package>" to list its conffiles. E.g. adduser has /etc/adduser.conf as a conffile. Hope this helps, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig