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X-RDate: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 09:59:14 +0500 (ESK)
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 06:20:20 -0700
From: Tres Melton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Oddities in RH 5.0

Please forgive me if this post is not appropriate for either of these two
groups since I just joined redhat-list and this is my first post to either
redhat or bugtraq (except for a previous plea for help that Aleph One
answered on BUGTRAQ).

I have Redhat 5.0 (that came with an Applixware update) and have installed
it on my system.  I have run pwconv to change to shadowed passwords.  This
is an extremly limited installation (nothing checked on the install
options).  I have then added only certain packages (some binary and some
source).  I have installed the shadow-utils and passwd SRPMS as well.

If I run "useradd -p pass1 test1" I get the oddest thing in /etc/shadow:

test1:pass1:10223:0:99999:7:::

That doesn't look exactly cool to me.  If you run passwd you can fix that
little problem.  I then ran "useradd test2" and got the following:

/etc/shadow:    test2:!:10223:0:99999:7:::
/etc/passwd:    test2:x:502:502::/home/test:/bin/bash

looks cool so far right?  Now run "passwd test2" and set the password.
Now the entries read like so:

/etc/shadow:    test2:!:10223:0:99999:7:::
/etc/passwd:    test2:R0KYaK5ivSnk6:501:501::/home/test2:/bin/bash

Seems to me like it updated the wrong file.

I had a problem with the shadow suite putting an '!' for a non-password
somewhere before and had to patch the source to make it use an '*'
instead.  It was in an old Slackware release.  I haven't had the time to
investigate this yet.  I don't understand why the shadow suite uses an '*'
for accounts with non-passwords when it converts regular /etc/passwd files
and uses an '!' for all new non-passwords.  A feature maybe?  I don't even
know if this is the problem.

Anybody got any ideas?          Tres,

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