password in passwd not in shadow for one user

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Tue, Jul 08, Bernard Fay wrote:

> A regular user, actually my own account for daily use, created simply with
> adduser.

SLES10 SP2 does not have an adduser command...

> I expected to see it in /etc/shadow like all other regular users.

Yes, it should be there. And there are no known bug reports that this
is not the case with the standard tools, so either you found an until
now unknown bug, or you used some tool which does not know about shadow
passwords.

  Thorsten
 
> Bernard
> 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 08, Bernard Fay wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have one user with his password in the passwd file and no entry in the
> > > shadow file.  All other users use shadow for their password.
> > >
> > > Does someone know how it could happened?
> >
> > Depends on what this user is. There are a lot of possibilities
> > how this can happen.
> >
> >  Thorsten
> >
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