On debian, try:

shadowconfig off
to disable shadow passwords

On my system this does:

    set -e
    pwck -q
    grpck
    pwunconv
    grpunconv
    cd /etc
    # sometimes the passwd perms get munged
    chown root:root passwd group
    chmod 644 passwd group


At 07:12 PM 1/21/99 +1030, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Thomas Stinner wrote:
>
>> 
>> Redhat (at least 5.2) comes with a tool named pwunconv, i don't know if
>> debian includes the same. Under Redhat it's located in the
>> 
>> [thomas@gw-ips thomas]$ rpm -q -f /usr/sbin/pwunconv
>> shadow-utils-980403-4
>
>It's one of the programs of the shadow password suite.  If you have
>shadow you have pwunconv.
>
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