Why is FAI using /etc/passwd and not /etc/shadow?

[Kenny Duffus]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:17:48PM +0200, jimmy at g-tec.co.at wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Why is FAI using /etc/passwd? I think this is a real security risk and
> should not be used for a default installation. If /etc/passwd is used
> because of NIS then it would be better to use /etc/passwd only for
> NIS-classes, IMO.
> I'm also wondering that debootstrap didn't activate shadow passwords. I
> thought that this is standard when using the noninteractive frontend.
> 

Hi

You need to turn it on by adding the following to one of your scripts:

# enable shadow passwds
$ROOTCMD /sbin/shadowconfig on

	Kenny
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