On 3/21/00 07:24, Ray Olszewski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>At 01:10 AM 3/21/00 -0500, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote [in part]:
>
>>The SuSE and Slackware systems share a swap partition, but that is it.
>>And they are on the same machine, so they can not run simultaneously. I
>>just checked /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd on the slackware's drive, and it
>>seems that an encrypted password is entered in its /etc/shadow, but there
>>is no corresponding entry in the password space in /etc/passwd. root has
>>encrypted password entries in both of these files.
>
>This sounds a lot like a version mismatch. If the system is using shadow
>passwords, there should be passwords in /etc/shadow bot NOT in /etc/passwd .
>In /etc/passwd, there should be an "x" in the password field. It sounds like
>you have a version lf login that doesn't use shadow passwords, but a version
>of passwd that does.
>
>A crude solution -- use a text editor to copy the encrypted password for the
>user account from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd . Then see if the account can
>login. This isn't a fix, just a test to isolate the problem. The fix (if
>this is the problem) is to upgrade Slackware to a version that uses shadow
>passwords consistently.
>
>Only a guess, of course ...
Now that the SuSE system is back online, I think what I am going to do is
update the Slackware system to Slackware 7. I am hoping that once I do
that, all the versions should match, and that that will clear things up.
If not, well, then I still have an updated system to work on!
BTW, while rummaging through /etc, I found a file /etc/shadow- that has a
creation date one day earlier than /etc/shadow. Don't know how it got
there though.
>
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>Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
>Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cheers,
Sean
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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