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
