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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-03 05:17:39 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-03 05:17:39 +0000 |
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Adding debian version 1:4.13+dfsg1-5.debian/1%4.13+dfsg1-5
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diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian deleted file mode 100644 index e7ef263..0000000 --- a/debian/README.debian +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -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. |