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[Ben <benwei AT veriwave.com>]

Actually, I was able to get this to work using only the 'shadow' package.  I 
just downloaded the shadow.tgz package from slack 7.1, installed it, and then 
used useradd and passwd to create and set passwords for my users.  Thanks for 
the help,
Ben

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:00:30 +0200
Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2 AT arrakis.es> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:02:29 -0700, Ben <benwei AT veriwave.com> wrote:
> 
> > I notice that BL is essentially set up as a single-user system, with not 
> > even a 'passwd' command or any of the user management scripts.  How can I 
> > convert it into a multi-user system?
> 
> I did it by adding a packet called uadddel and shadow. Perhaps those who 
> know could confirm that this is all that is needed as I am having one small 
> problem (see 'mounting by user' thread on this list). Is uadddel suitable 
> for BL2 or only for BL1? (Sorry: this is not intended to be a hijack)
> TIA Andrew
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