On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Stein Vrale wrote:
>
> Jacques Gelinas wrote:
>
> > This feature is currently non effective on system using PAM (redhat). But
> > there is a way out. Use shadow passwords (highly recommended anyway). To
> > enable shadow password, simply do
> >
> > /usr/sbin/pwconv
> >
> > then you will find that this check box is effective and that the user
> > account dialog has grown with many new fields.
>
> Thats true, I did this and the conversion seemed to work okay, lots of
> new fields in the user configurator (maybe to much fields?) but when I
> checked the server this morning the disk was filled with mailerrors, I
> think it was identd or the uucp system which freaked out on shadow
> passwd, anyone now about this? (I had to remove shadow to get up again).
This is very strange. This would mean that some apps are not shadow aware
(not using PAM). Odd. identd is not related with password and the
/etc/passwd file is still there with the same format.
I find these reports puzzling as shadow password is really the way to go,
security wise.
Could you show me some of the messages you got ?
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