shadow passwords and FAI

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:12:25 +0200, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> said:

    >> The problem is that at the time software is installed by FAI, shadow
    >> passwords are not enabled and thus /etc/shadow does not exist.

    > Calling `$ROOTCMD shadowconfig on` from hooks/updatebase.DEFAULT
    > does the trick. However, this is to basic that I believe FAI should
    > do it automatically, no?

In FAI 2.8.4 we are using debconf to set up shadow passwords. I think
you are using some old customization scripts. In the past we've used
these commands:

$ROOTCMD pwconv ; $ROOTCMD grpconv

Now we are using /fai/debconf/FAIBSE:

passwd  passwd/shadow   boolean true

You see, there's more than one way to do it :-)
-- 
regards Thomas