On Tue Jul 06 1999 at 12:45, "Koliya N Pulasinghe." wrote:
> I also in the same problem. Since I haven't seen any shadow file
> at /etc I installed it from Redhat RPMS. My command was
>
> rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/SRPMS/SRPMS.pt1/shadow-utils-980403-3.src.rpm
> But it didn't install anything on /etc and elsewhere.
You DO NOT install source rpm files with the .src.rpm extension.
Well, you do, but it all goes into /usr/src/redhat/* - from where the
intention is to rebuild the package. Install the binary package
instead. However, not much will appear in /etc/ (not yet anyway).
See the output of this command to find what files have been installed
from the shadow-utils package:
rpm -qil $(rpm -qa | grep shadow) | less
Look for any documentation files in /usr/doc and man pages in
/usr/man/.
> Please help me to come up with shadow password security.
Type this:
pwconv
Congradulation, you have just enabled shadow password security.
(You really ought to read the RedHat manual... :)
> Thanks...
>
> Koliya
>
> At 03-07-99, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:33:15 +0530, Vijay Mahajani wrote:
> > > Hi everybody !!!
> > >
> > >I am using Red Hat 5.0 as a mail server.Evenif I login as root I can't
> > >see shadow file any where .I ried to locate it in /etc and other
> > >directories.
> > >Thanking you in advance .
> > >Vijay.
> >
> >Why do you think the shadow package is installed?
> >Just type:
> >cd /etc
> >ls -al : more
> >and try to find out 'shadow'.
> >If there is no such file, the package is not installed.
(bullsh*t :)
