On 3/21/00 09:49, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at
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>On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Ray Olszewski 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.
>>
[Ray's (educated) guess about a file mismatch snipped.]
>> Only a guess, of course ...
>
>An even cruder solution: run pwunconv. this will move the passwords
>from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd (where login will see them) and take
>them out of /etc/shadow, and restore the illusion of control. Or just
>
>installpkg shadow.tgz
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>it's in the a set. Slackware has had shadow since 3.4, possibly before
>that, but it doesn't force you to install it, I think. You have passwd
>from shadow, maybe you reinstalled over it without shadow to get the
>non-shadow login?
>
Well, here's a good object lesson about reading the man pages for a
utility before you run it. (Why do I have to keep re-learning this one?)
I ran pwunconv. For whatever reason, it did not move the encrypted
passwords from /etc/shadow over to /etc/passwd, but it did remove
/etc/shadow. That's ok, though, because the basic problem here is that
the system was not looking in shadow for a password anyway. And, I just
realized that I should have tried to change my password again after
running pwunconv to see what would happen, but I didn't. Dooh!
Well, I'm going to do the upgrade thing and go from 3.4/4.0 to Slackware
7. I think I will take Slackware's advice to remove all the installed
packages first, and then install new. If that doesn't fix the problem, I
will let you all know. :-)
>Lawson
>
>Free Software: If you contribute nothing, expect nothing
>
> - Uwe Bonnes
>
Cheers,
Sean
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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