I wanted to do the same thing on my installation. If memory serves me you
need to do the pwunconv grpunconv as you already did. Check that the
passwords are no longer :x: in the /etc/passwd file.
You now need to disable the password verification and generation in PAM.
Change the directory to /etc/pam.d and edit the passwd file. Comment out the
lines as shown and rewrite these lines with the mods shown... hope that
helps... let me know if it works... its been a while since I did this:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
#password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
#password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok
hope it helps
Werner
ark wrote:
> on 6/11/00 11:30 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, does anybody know how to disable shadow passwords?
> >
> > I've tried pwunconv and grpunconv. But then when you change your passwd
> > you still get an 'x' in /etc/passwd and you can't log in.
> >
> > Why am I doing this? Well, when I installed Mandrake 6.1 last summer,
> > shadowing seemed like a reasonable thing to do, even though my machine
> > is a dial-up client. However, I just installed netatalk and wasn't been
> > able to get it working with shadow passwords (problems compiling DES
> > module). So I rebuilt it without SHADOWPW defined.
> >
> > Now some passwords do work and some don't work. And after you run passwd
> > on an account, the password will definitely not work. (The effect of
> > passwd, which I checked using
> > find / -mount -mmin -2
> > was just to put an 'x' in passwd. So apparently it thinks shadow is in
> > effect but can't find the shadow file and doesn't complain.)
> >
> > At this poing I'm wondering if a full upgrade to 7.1 would be the
> > easiest thing....
> >
> > TIA!
>
> I have netatalk working fine with shadow passwords. Try installing from an
> RPM instaed of rolling your own.
>
> gavin
