Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk
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 accountrequired /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
Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk - FIXED
Gavin Clark 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 Well, that was my first choice, but somehow I can't seem to find an appropriate RPM. So I decided to RTFM, where M='Makefile'. In sys/linux/Makefile there's a comment: # if you aren't using pam and are using glibc, you'll need to add -lcrypt # if you're using libc5, you'll need to take out the -lrpcsvc AFPLIBS=-lrpcsvc This wasn't documented in the README or README.LINUX, but that's life. Adding -lcrypt to the line fixed the linking problems I had with the SHADOWPW define. Now netatalk's running! It's SWEET! -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk
Thanks, I'll save this away just in case! "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: 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 accountrequired /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 -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
