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- Path: sparky!uunet!nevada.edu!jimi!maniac
- From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
- Subject: Shadow Passwords. What are they?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.193956.12834@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: Too many
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:39:56 GMT
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- When I recently installed 0.99, over a 0.97p?, I startet getting an
- error message when logging in as any user I created with the adduser
- command. It basically says that there is no shadow password for that
- user.
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- Now, I haven't seen any references to just what shadow passwords are,
- so could someone please explain what they are and how to use them.
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- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
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