LWPASSWD(5)

NAME
lwpasswd - LinuxWare password file

SYNOPSIS
/etc/lwpasswd

DESCRIPTION
Lwpasswd is an ASCII file which contains a list of the Linux users allowed to access the system services via LinuxWare ( lwared(8) program) and their passwords. Original unix password database ( passwd(5) ) cannot be used for authorization, because different one-way functions are used for the password encryption in Unix and NetWare. The password file should have read and write access only for the superuser (mode 600), it contains only weak-crypted passwords. Be carefull while editing the file, some text editors (e.g. joe(1) ) makes backup copies readable by everyone. There is one entry per line, and each line has the format:
    login_name:password
The field descriptions are:
    login_name
        the name of user which must match one user name in the system password file ( passwd(5) ).
    password
        the "crypted" user password (16 bytes in hex). If the password is missing, the user has a LinuxWare account, but cannot log in immediately and must first change the LinuxWare password using lwpasswd(1) program. The encryption of the password is weak, people familiar with NCP can log into the server using this "crypted" password. But for naive users the passwords are unreadable.

FILES
/etc/lwpasswd

VERSION
This man page is correct for version 0.91 of lwared.

SEE ALSO
lwpasswd(1),lwared(8)