On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Migrating our NIS setup from a Solaris machine to a Red Hat 6.2 box, and snag
> number one is that the Solaris rig didn't include a gshadow file, just a
> classical "group" file. Can someone recommend a quick trick for turning a
> group file into its shadow-compatible counterpart? As I read the man page
> for grpconv, it appears to be hard-wired into using /etc/group as input and
> /etc/gshadow as output, which ain't what I need.
Well, how 'bout you put the group file at /etc/group, run grpconv, and
then move those files where you need them?
> root:::root
> floppy:x::
> mjinks:!::
>
> The "root" one I think I understand: no password for that group, you're
> either in or you're not. But what's the difference between the x and the !
> in the other two lines? Reading group(5), shadow(5) and passwd(5), I don't
> find any explanation of what those mean.
The '!' character should never result from a call to crypt(), so it
effectively locks an account with no password. The 'x' is supposed to
mean that the password lies in the shadowed file. I don't know why
they're in your gshadow file :)
MSG
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