On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled > upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I > recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty > happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it. Is there a > "convert me to shadow" jobber I might not have noticed?
Oh. That's the reason. You're supposed to turn on shadow passwords using the shadowconfig command. Maybe that should be better documented. You probably want to do a "shadowconfig on" since it does a few more things than just running "pwconv". (Take a look at it if you want, it's just a simple shell script.) For more details, read /usr/doc/passwd/README.debian.gz > thanks (and sorry for the newbieness--I've just been running debian > for like a week now). No problem! And newbieness is fully allowed on debian-user, no need to excuse yourself. Christiain
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