On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > Thanks ! > It really works, however there is another small problem. I'm maintaining > two debian systems, and "/etc/login.defs" exists only in one of them (the > one with installed shadow passwords). > Is the existence of /etc/login.defs associated with shadow passwords > system? > How to install shadow passwords on "living" debian linux?
I don't know for sure if login.defs is used only when you use shadow passwords. It could also depend on the version of login. You can turn on shadow passwords with: # shadowconfig on This should do the trick. You might want to restart xdm if you use it. I don't know if /etc/init.d/xdm is updated automatically. For shadow passwords, it should start xdm-shadow instead of xdm. There is no harm in using xdm-shadow on a non-shadow password system. Remco -- "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam up my clothes." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
