Kuser "No Shadow entry for..." on exit.

kermitjunior · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167

Hello!

Saw this question in the newbie forum, too, but no answer.

When I add or change something in Kuser, it asks if I want to save... yes...

Then I get warnings of "No Shadow entry for cron" "No Shadow entry for...." and it goes on down the list cron, at, squid, gdm, xfs, named, mysql, postgres, apache, nut, cyrus,vpopmail, alias, qmaild, qmaill, qmailq, qmailp, qmailr, qmails, postfix.

Thanks!
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meekrob · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:59 pm Post subject: No Shadow Entries!

I don't have shadow entries for these either. It's a problem when I need to change the password for the postgres user.

meekrob · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject: Ahh check this out:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14683&highlight=shadow

Based on this thread it looks like the reason these users are not included in shadow is to deny them a logon. It's a good thing, security-wise.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to add them to shadow.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I think man pwconv might be helpful.
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