[H-GEN] passwd and shadow files

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

On Dec 16, 2007 9:24 PM, List Puppy <listpuppy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a configuration file somewhere that tells the system, at boot
> time, to use a shadow file instead of the password file?  If so;
> where, and, what is its name?

It probably doesn't happen at boot time; my guess is that it's going
to be in the pam configuration for the authentication module being
used (probably "login").

Looks like pam_unix.so is responsible for this, and one source I
looked at says that it auto-detects the presence of /etc/shadow.

jasonp