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Re: your post (chfn chsh problem)



On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Meir Litmanovich wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Arik Baratz wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi ! 
> > >May be somebody know, how may I use chfn and chsh ,because it isn't 
> > > works (i.m it say ok,Finger name (or Shell ) had changed but don't really
> > > changes) .
> > 
> >  Do you happen to use shadow passwords???
>     What does it mean 'shadow' passwords ? 

It means the password field in the /etc/passwd file is invisible, and the 
actual password resides elsewhere (eg. /etc/shadow). Maybe your chfn 
changes the wrong file?

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