On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Don Russell <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:41:13 Brian Millett wrote: >> >> > So the password field has changed from x to * ???? >> > >> > I know that that means look in /etc/shadow for the password, but what >> > inconsistancy will the older, established users find ?? >> >> 'x' means look in /etc/shadow, '*' is one of several ways of indicating >> "no >> password" as in you can't log in, rather than "blank password" which lets >> all >> log in without one. The .rpmnew is the "unconverted" form, if you run >> pwunconv >> you'll see the same it /etc/passwd. >> > > > The /etc/passwd.rpmnew has 15 lines of userid stuff... > My /etc/passwd file has a lot more than that... and many I didn't even know > about.... (various system things ntpd blah blah blah) > > Am I supposed to take the users that *I* added to the system (via > system-config-users) and cut/paste those ones into the new one, changing the > x to an *? And thereby dropping all those other ones that are set to nologon > anyway? > > Does pwconv or pwunconv do this for me automatically? (The man file looks > great for people familiar with it... not so great for explaining what the > commands really do.) Shouldn't the update script have done this when it > updated setup? > > The pwconv command creates shadow from passwd and an optionally > existing > shadow. > > The pwunconv command creates passwd from passwd and shadow and then > removes shadow. > > So where does passwd.rpmnew come into play? > > pwconv ... and removes shadow... um, don't I need shadow? > ditto for pwunconv > > I don't get it, now I don't know what I have. :-( > The passwd rpm specified the creation of /etc/passwd. Since your system already had an existing /etc/passwd file that spec instructions were written such that the old file was not overwritten. Your old file was protected and /etc/passwd.rpmnew was created. You should thank the packager for being diligent. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
