On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Patrick RICHARD wrote: > > > > > I choose the shadow mode and I create the new users with the command > > > "adduser" > > > > Can you post /etc/passwd and /etc/group, please? > > Please post your private PGP key and pass phrase also. ;)
Red herring. If he uses shadow passwords, then the password field mearly contains an x. If he doesn't, then it is only a one-way hash. Having said that, he claims to use shadow, so this shouldn't matter. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/