There is now a HOWTO for this. See the normal Linux HOWTO locations. However, I guess the problem would be, if you make your system use shadow passwords, installing some (many?) Debian packages after this will most likely not work at all.
Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 31 Jan 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Donald Lambert writes: > Donald> Hello, I was wondering if debian has a package for shadowing > Donald> passwords. > > No, there is a copyright problem with the shadow suite for Linux. It seems > that a new Linux shadow package with a more suitable copyright is in the > works. > > Donald> As well what would be involved to shadow the passwords > > Err, do you know what shadow passwords are? All it means is that the > world-readable file /etc/passwd does no longer contain the encrypted password > which are moved to the file /etc/shadow which is only root-readable. They are > hence hidden from crackers. "In the shadow" as opposed to "in the sunlight". > > In case your question meant "what would be involved to create a shadow > password suite", the answer is "a lot". Check the mailing list archive for > debian-devel on http://www.debian.org where some other schemes were also > discussed not too long ago. > > -- > Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd > >
