passwords

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> Regular Users
> -------------
> 
> I generate a normal user. The users password is kept in /etc/passwd. The shadow
> password is kept in /etc/shadow. Are these two files kept in sync? I may chose
> to use normal password or shadow passwords for authentication.

If you have shadow passwords installed, then no password is kept
in /etc/passwd; passwords are only kept in /etc/shadow.

> NIS
> ---

I dunno anything about NIS.

> Samba
> -----

I dunno anything about Samba.