-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Vian Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:27 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC4 and Shadow Passwords
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:21 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
I've got an FC4 install with shadow-utils installed but the passwords are being stored in /etc/passwd and there is no /etc/shadow file. Any ideas?
Examine /etc/sysconfig/authconfig and check that there is a
line like this:
USESHADOW=yes
Also check perms on that file are root:root and 644.
shadow must have perms 400 and passwd needs perms of 644.
If the passwords are in the passwd file it will need to be converted by using pwconv to create the proper entries in the shadow file. See man pwconv for details on operation.
A question I have is how the system got that way? The default config for Fedora is to use shadow passwords. Something must have been changed to tell it not to use shadow.
-Andy
I'm curious about that myself, I have other machines very similar to this that I created with the same kickstart script. I've installed some other RPM's on this I wonder if one of them some how moved everything back to passwd? WEIRD. Anyway, thanks guys!
-Mike