If you really need shadow, you could conceivably edit the files yourself. I have done it sucessfully under Solaris after ftping a working passwd file from a Dgux system. I was naieve and did not know that Sun provided a utility to do this.
Read the man pages to get the syntax right, but essentially the encrypted password is removed from passwd and replaced with a flag character. The same encrypted password goes in the shadow file. Field one, the uid, is the same in both files. The rest of the fields in shadow have to to with ageing, etc. The important thing to remember is that there has to be a line for line coorespondence between passwd and shadow, and that shadow is unreadable, except by root (chmod 400 passwd). --Brian Karl Ferguson wrote: > > Hi Guys. > > I'm trying to convert to the shadow system and running into a brick wall. > There used to be a shadow package in expermental that you'd simply install > and hey presto you'd be using a shadow system. I see that there's a > "login" and "passwd" package that pertain to this in the base directory, > but installing these don't convert my system to shadow. Can someone > enlighten me? > > Regards > > -- > Karl Ferguson, > Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456-0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
