[ale] Shadow passwords

James Kinney jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Jan 8 15:00:28 EST 2001


look at man pwconv

the converse is pwunconv

pwconv make shadow passwords from /etc/passwd
pwunconv unmakes it.

JimK
Local Net Solutions

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I am using RH 6.1 and am building a small system.  I do  not want to use
> shadow passwords.  Is there somewhere tha tI can turn that off and let the
> kernel pick up encrypted passwords from the /etc/passwd file?
> 
> thanks,
> Chris
> 

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