Linux-Setup Digest #304, Volume #21 Fri, 25 May 01 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: cdrecord/SCSI driver:Newbie question (Roger Lindmark)
Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not ("Damiano Fasoli")
Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not ("Natman")
Re: installing qlogic scsi adaptor (Kwan Lowe)
Re: How to configure HUGE swap? ("KW")
Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? (J�rgen Diez)
Apache and libgdbm.so.1 ("Joel")
HELP formated drive (Douglas Gouty)
Re: Partion problems.... (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: How To Set The Swap size ? (Sevatio)
Re: Apache and libgdbm.so.1 (Michael Heiming)
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW (Todd Knarr)
RE: Lilo on MBR with Windows 98? ("DiegoWS")
nt and linux booting problems (omry)
SuSE 7.1/Apple Mac/La Cie HD (Sally Shears)
Retrieving PPP IP Address ("Mark D.")
Re: Newbie ; Kernet compilation - Can't run any make command (eg (chris ciotti)
Re: how to allow shutdown for a user ?? :) (chris ciotti)
nt-linux booting problems (omry)
Re: news reader (chris ciotti)
Mandrake 8.0 Firewall & Samba (mw)
Re: lpr did not convert LF->CR/LF (Dave Uhring)
Re: fonts (Dave Uhring)
Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not (Vilmos Soti)
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From: Roger Lindmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord/SCSI driver:Newbie question
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:18:10 +0200
<skickat till e-postmottagare och diskussionsgrupp>
Serin wrote:
I have installed an IDE CD-Writer in RedHat 7.0 and I first tried the
description at:
http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/cdrecord_cdr.html
It did not work for my system, so I used instead:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/feenberg.html
and it was OK for me.
When I installed RedHat 7.1 the CDRW, was automatically installed and
worked directly.
Sincerely Yours
Roger
--
Roger Lindmark
OS/2 Warp 4.06
RedHat 7.1
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From: "Damiano Fasoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:28:05 GMT
I know that using
pwconv
you transfer passwords from /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow
and using
pwunconv
you transfer passwords from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd
Have a Nice Day
Damiano
"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone give me a reason why when using RedHat's User Manager, new
> accounts have the password encrypted in /etc/shadow, but users created
> with useradd at the command line have clear text passwords in ..shadow?
>
> Is there a way to set a password at the command line that comes over as
> encrypted in shadow?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Liam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:25:57 GMT
I'm assuming that you are using the -p argument?
as stated in the useradd(8) man page:
-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).
The default is to disable the account.
which (to me) means that you have to call crypt yourself, and send useradd
the encrypted password, and not the plain text version. I'm not sure how to
do this (aside from writing a perl script, or C program). crypt(3) is a
definition of the crypt function for use in C programs. What I would do is
create the user with 'useradd', without the -p switch, then just run 'passwd
user' to set his/her password after. AFAIK, this 2-step procedure is what
most people do (I just use RH's User Manager).
Natman
"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone give me a reason why when using RedHat's User Manager, new
> accounts have the password encrypted in /etc/shadow, but users created
> with useradd at the command line have clear text passwords in ..shadow?
>
> Is there a way to set a password at the command line that comes over as
> encrypted in shadow?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Liam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing qlogic scsi adaptor
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:38:50 GMT
Husam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> need help with installing qlogic scsi adaptor. I replaced a Adaptec card
> with qlogic. I did modprobe qlogicisp, but it did not help. the driver
> becomes listed in the loaded drivers, but i still can not mount the
> cdrom attached to the scsi card. when you reboot the machine, the kernel
> still tries to load the former driver (aic7xxx) and it does not try to
> initialize the driver of the new card. so my question is:
> -how can i remove the aic7xxx driver from the boot process?
> -how can i let the kernel initialize the qlogic driver?
Look at your /etc/modules.conf file and see if scsi is aliased to aic7xxx.
Change it if it is.
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure HUGE swap?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:41:26 -0500
With 1.5 GB of ram I don't think you'll be swapping to the HDD much. For
reference, our mail/masquerading/firewall/samba server, 150+ users, only has
128 MB swap and as far as we're concenred it's overkill...
If you do think you want those, you would be best having smaller swaps across
serveral drives...
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Milica Medved"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am putting together an AMD 1.3GHz machine with 1.5Gb RAM, for processing
> 64Mb+ data sets. It will run Red Hat 7.1.
>
> With a 75Gb hard drive, I have plenty of space to spare BUT, I am worried
> about performance, since the memory/swap size is so huge.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> 1) Will a 1.5Gb swap partition work fine, or would it be too large?
> I am worried about seek times or other things I can't even imagine yet.
> Would three 512Mb partitions work faster?
>
> 2) Will creating multiple partitions (e.g. 3x1.5Gb) work faster/slower
> then a single partition of a) 1.5Gb; b) 4.5Gb?
>
> I know that splitting swap partitions accross multiple physical drives
> improves performance, but I will only have one, so that's not an issue.
>
> Basically, I'd go for, say, 3 or 4 1.5Gb swap partitions, but I am afraid of
> ruining the performance by an overkill, or simply of not optimizing it out of
> pure ignorance. I am NOT worried about waisting hard drive capacity. If you
> can help with advice, thanks.
>
> Millie
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J�rgen Diez)
Date: 25 May 2001 21:40:39 GMT
>And can I safely assume that you made the necessary to
>the X config file so that X links to freetype2?
How do I have to do that?
Does the Xf86Config really affect the qt installation?
--
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache and libgdbm.so.1
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:37:01 -0500
Hi. I am setting up my Redhat 7.1 machine, and I downloaded the apache
1.3.6 and installed it. Now when I run it, it says
"/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries:
libgdbm.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory".
Where can I get libgdbm.so.1? Redhat only comes with libgdbm.so.2. Or how
can I get apache to use this latter file? Thanks in advance.
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From: Douglas Gouty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: HELP formated drive
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:44:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP...
I have accidentally formatted one of my data drives.
I was doing a reinstall of SUSE 7.0 to a new ATA-100 drive and still had=
=20
one of my data drives attached. I was watching TV while I was selecting=
=20
partitions and formatting and accidentally selected my data partition as=
=20
well. As soon as it hit the data drive I noticed it and killed the powe=
r. =20
Not quick enough though. <arrrggg> So I have lost some very important=20=
account and contact data that had not been backed up as recent as I had =
hoped. I am looking for some utilities to recover from the partial form=
at.=20
Any help would be appreciated.
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Partion problems....
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:47:42 GMT
"Christopher Fairbairn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> It is possible that DOS/Windows has made some damage to hdb, but of
>> cause the problem can have other causes.
>
>If the drive is damaged - ie messed partion table etc, how would I still be
>able to read from the partitions? I've check most of the files which are
>easily checkable, and all the configuration files, my source code etc seems
>to be readable, and still contains the proper contents etc.
>
>/dev/hda is simply a single 40gb FAT32 partition.
When hda has a single partition I do not think that Windows can have
damaged data on hdb in this case. You however still should note the
rules for partition tables mentioned in my first posting.
I have no other ideas about the cause of the problem.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.certification.redhat,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How To Set The Swap size ?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:59:10 -0700
I think it's a matter of resizing that swap partition to your liking. Use
Partition Magic.
yotam wrote:
> I am using R.H 7 is it possible to change the swap size after installation
> ? thanks in advance
> Or Freund .
>
>
>
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:09:29 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache and libgdbm.so.1
Joel wrote:
>
> Hi. I am setting up my Redhat 7.1 machine, and I downloaded the apache
> 1.3.6 and installed it. Now when I run it, it says
> "/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries:
> libgdbm.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory".
> Where can I get libgdbm.so.1? Redhat only comes with libgdbm.so.2. Or how
> can I get apache to use this latter file? Thanks in advance.
Apache seems to be compiled to use libgdbm.so.1.
ldd /path_to/httpd | grep libgdbm
should show. Anyway, why to want to run such an old apache?
1.3.19 is the latest, there were some security problems with earlier
versions...
I can't believe RH 7.1 would not come with a newer apache?
Michael Heiming
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:16:51 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc <qCyP6.4323$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's interesting... I also use Comcast @Home and haven't noticed that,
> though I have had my fair share of problems (outages, lousy service)...
> Did your upload speed recently drop, too?
I think it's heavily dependent on who the local @Home franchise is run by.
I use Cox@Home in San Diego, and it's given me no problems with Linux.
You can use DHCP with them but they recommend against it, and for non-Windows
OSes everything you need is on a printed sheet they give you when they
install and sync up the cable modem ( external, Ethernet, includes a
crossover cable ) ( Windows users get it as well, but most of them use
the software on the CD and so don't care about it ). Speed's good, usually
around 2.5-3 megabits down and anywhere from 20-200 K/sec up depending
on time of day.
--
Collin was right. Never give a virus a missile launcher.
-- Erk, Reality Check #8
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From: "DiegoWS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Lilo on MBR with Windows 98?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:23:08 -0300
sorry, but you can install linux first and win98 later. When you install
win98 only you need boot from floppy or Cdrom and run lilo again.
Ahmad Al-rasheedan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
9eaqnu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Myriam Abramson wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Can I install Lilo on the MBR with windows 98? I've read about not
> > doing that with Windows NT but is it Okay with Windows 98?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I have the above on my PC. Just make sure you install Windogz first then
> Linux.
> --
> Ahmad Al-rasheedan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omry)
Subject: nt and linux booting problems
Date: 25 May 2001 16:17:03 -0700
Hi all
I have w2k and win98 installed. After installing red-hat 7.1, I found
out that I could only boot linux with a boot floppy. I have installed
linux MBC to the linux main partition and not into the MBR (to avoid
crashing my NTLDR.)
I have copied the linux boot record to a floppy from the right hda
num. which is 11. I have checked the num with the lilo.conf.
I have done it with dd if=/dev/hda11 of=/tmp/liloboot.bin bs=512
count=1.
After copying it to my c:\ directory (w2k root), and updating the
boot.ini with the link, when ever I chose linux from my NTLOADER the
screen hangs all dark with flikerring currsor at the top left corner
of the PC.
What should I do ?
thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sally Shears)
Subject: SuSE 7.1/Apple Mac/La Cie HD
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:26:00 GMT
I bought a couple of SCSI-narrow hard disks for older Apple Power Mac 7500
machines.
SuSE 7.1 installs and runs just fine on them.
One problem: LaCie sells 9gb and 18gb SCSI drives in their Mac department.
Two 9gb drives installed SuSE 7.1 just fine. The one 18gb did not. It
would never finish the "creating file system" step in YAST. A hard disk
test with Apple's drive setup showed no problems, but after several tries
with SuSE, I gave up.
I did notice that the LaCie drivers on the 9gb models were not updated by
Apple's 9.1 installer. Maybe this was good.
The drivers on the 18gb were updated by Apple's 9.1 installer and this
disk wouldn't complete the SuSE installation.
Anyone have problems with the 18gb drives? Unless I hear positive comments
from others, I'm going to stick with the 9gb SCSI drives for now.
Any other experiences with LaCie drives? With 9.1 updating the drivers
before the SuSE install?
Thanks.
-- Sally
--
Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly")
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://world.std.com/~sshears
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:42:36 -0400
From: "Mark D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Retrieving PPP IP Address
Hello
I am trying to automate a packet filtering firewall by providing the IP
address of the PPP connection upon its connection. I have Linux
2.2.5-15 (Redhad 6.0). Besides querying the PPP log file to get the IP
address, is there any more direct method to finding the PPP IP address
to put in the IPChains script.
Thanks for your help,
Mark
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From: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie ; Kernet compilation - Can't run any make command (eg
Date: 25 May 2001 23:45:10 GMT
Reply-To: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello. See if you can find the package 'kgcc' on your RedHat CDROM and
install it. When you cd into /usr/src/linux edit the Makefile like this:
#
# Include the make variables (CC, etc...)
#
CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)kgcc <-----this used to read gcc
This way you'll be using the c compiler the kernel was intended to be
compiled with. Good luck!
--
chris
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On 22 May 2001, Dasoroju J Rao wrote:
*>Date: 22 May 2001 21:26:26 -0700
*>From: Dasoroju J Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.setup
*>Subject: Newbie ; Kernet compilation - Can't run any make command (eg :
*> make menuconfig)
*>
*>Hi,
*>
*>Currenlty, I have redhat 7.0, kernel ver: 2.2.16-22. yesterday, I
*>dowloaded kernet-2.4.4.tar.gz and untarred into /usr/src/ directory.
*>But , I can't run any make commands like make menuconfig or any other
*>commands to start compiling. I searched for make command in /
*>directory (find / -name make), but I can't find it. What am I
*>missing. pl help...
*>
*>Cheers
*>
*>DJ
*>
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From: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to allow shutdown for a user ?? :)
Date: 25 May 2001 23:53:19 GMT
Reply-To: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You could also make an adjustment in linuxconf. Go to user accounts and
check ALLOW for allow shutdown.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Patrick Draper/Austin/Sector 7 USA, Inc. wrote:
*>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:47:19 GMT
*>From: "Patrick Draper/Austin/Sector 7 USA, Inc."
*> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
*>Subject: Re: how to allow shutdown for a user ?? :)
*>
*>> On Thu, 10 May 2001 03:11:03 -0400, Yves Leung-Tack allegedly wrote:
*>> >Hi,
*>> >
*>> >
*>> > I used Linux Mandrake 7.2 at HOME.
*>> >And I login as a normal user. But to shutdown I have to be root
*>> >I wonder how can I allow user to shutdown ???
*>> >It is "really" painful to type sum, pwd, and finally shutdown !
*>> >
*>> >I found nothing in man page ...except about a file shutdown.allow
*>> >But as user I cannot even use the command shutdown :((
*>
*>Why not just change the entry for ctrl-alt-delete in /etc/inittab to do
*>a shutdown -h instead of a shutdown -r? Any user with access to the
*>console can shutdown with ctrl-alt-delete. No painful typing, which is
*>what you're trying to reduce.
*>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omry)
Subject: nt-linux booting problems
Date: 25 May 2001 16:59:33 -0700
Hi all
I have w2k and win98 installed. After installing red-hat 7.1, I found
out that I could only boot linux with a boot floppy. I have installed
linux MBC to the linux main partition and not into the MBR (to avoid
crashing my NTLDR.)
I have copied the linux boot record to a floppy from the right hda
num. which is 11. I have checked the num with the lilo.conf.
I have done it with dd if=/dev/hda11 of=/tmp/liloboot.bin bs=512
count=1.
After copying it to my c:\ directory (w2k root), and updating the
boot.ini with the link, when ever I chose linux from my NTLOADER the
screen hangs all dark with flikerring currsor at the top left corner
of the PC.
What should I do ?
thx
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From: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: news reader
Date: 26 May 2001 00:00:02 GMT
Reply-To: chris ciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What about PINE? It small, fast and loaded with features.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, marc onrust wrote:
*>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:40:37 GMT
*>From: marc onrust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
*>Subject: news reader
*>
*>Can anyone recommend me a good newsreader, to be used under KDE2 in SuSe
*>7.1. Currently I use the Netscape reader but would like to try an
*>alternative.
*>
*>Regards,
*>Marc
*>
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From: mw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 8.0 Firewall & Samba
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:14:45 GMT
I have installed Mandrake (with ICS), and whenever I setup the firewall
in control center, my other pc's on the network are unable to access
Samba. They have no problem accessing the internet though.
I have tried many different configurations of the firewall to no avail.
The only way I am able to restore connectivity with samba is a complete
reinstall of Mandrake. Needless to say this is not much fun, also I do
not cherish the thought of running Mandrake as a ICS pc without a
firewall.
Any help or advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpr did not convert LF->CR/LF
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:44:32 -0500
Eric Chow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I use lpr to print a file to a Windows Printer, it could not print
> the file line by line.
>
> The printer output seems to print a file into one line.
> How to set it as well? How to print a file to printer using lpr command
> correctly ?
>
> I just type "lpr myfile.txt".
> But the ouput in paper is one line.
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
>
>
Last time I tried to answer this for you, my power went out on the system.
SGI's XFS on RH-7.1 got its smoke test and passed.
Execute
# unix2dos myfile.txt
# lpr myfile.txt
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fonts
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:49:24 -0500
jack wrote:
> when i open up text files in some kind of editor (or through my browser)
> or type in a text box (such as my letter composer in hotmail) it displays
> in some really awful font. the font doesn't display words well and just
> uses spaces for any type of punctuation. i think it may be a KDE thing,
> but i have no idea how to change it.
>
> if anyone has any idea's, please let me know.
>
> thanks.
>
> jack
>
Start with the Control Center on your panel. Look & Feel -> Fonts and
change them to make everything legible. Next, in konqueror, Settings ->
Configure Konqueror -> Konqueror Browser -> Appearance and make the
necessary adjustments.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 01:03:47 GMT
"Damiano Fasoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know that using
>
> pwconv
>
> you transfer passwords from /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow
>
> and using
>
> pwunconv
>
> you transfer passwords from /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd
I checked out the manpage for pwconv, and it said something it would
synchronize passwd/shadow regarding entries. It didn't talk about
converting passwords which would be rather interesting since the passwords
are encrypted in a one-way fashion.
Vilmos
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