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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-03 05:17:39 +0000
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-Read this file first for a brief overview of the new versions of login
-and passwd.
-
-
----Shadow passwords
-
-The command `shadowconfig on' will turn on shadow password support.
-`shadowconfig off' will turn it back off. If you turn on shadow
-password support, you'll gain the ability to set password ages and
-expirations with chage(1).
-
-NOTE: If you use the nscd package, you may have problems with a
-slight delay in updating the password information. You may notice
-this during upgrades of certain packages that try to add a system
-user and then access the users information immediately afterwards.
-To avoid this, it is suggested that you stop the nscd daemon before
-upgrades, then restart it again.
-
----General configuration
-
-Most of the configuration for the shadow utilities is in
-/etc/login.defs. See login.defs(5). The defaults are quite
-reasonable.
-
-Also see the /etc/pam.d/* files for each program to configure the PAM
-support. PAM documentation is available in several formats in the
-libpam-doc package.
-
-
----MD5 Encryption
-
-This is enabled now using the /etc/pam.d/* files. Examples are given.
-
-
----Adding users and groups
-
-Though you may add users and groups with the SysV type commands,
-useradd and groupadd, I recommend you add them with Debian adduser
-version 3+. adduser gives you more configuration and conforms to the
-Debian UID and GID allocation.
-
-Editing user and group parameters can be done with usermod and
-groupmod. Removing users and groups can be done with userdel and
-groupdel.
-
-
---- Group administration
-
-Local group allocation is much easier. With gpasswd(1) you can
-designate users to administer groups. They can then securely add or
-remove users from the group.
-
-
---- What to read next?
-
-Read the manpages, the other files in this directory, and the Shadow
-Password HOWTO (included in the doc-linux package). A large portion
-of these files deals with getting shadow installed. You can, of
-course, ignore those parts.
-
-Also, the libpam-doc package will go a long way to allowing you to take
-full advantage of the PAM authentication scheme.