>Since they require access to the shadow'ed passwords, they need to be
>recompiled or reconfigured for support for shadowing. Converting a
>standard box to a shadow one is a pain in the @$$ because many
>applications (xlock, popper, etc) require recompilation. You'd think that
>libc would take care of stuff like that, but I'm sure there is a good
>reason :)>
Absolutely true. Because of this, the user would be just better off
upgrading to a modern Linux distro that has all of this support
done for you.
Why Redhat doesn't come configure with Shadow passwords blows me
away but enabling it is CAKE "ie. run "pwconv" and thats IT!"
--David
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