September 19, 2016

The method of changing group password policy(group ↔ gshadow)


□ If the group password policy is changed to gshadow, each group's password of group file is changed to x

□ grpconv : It is linux command to change password policy(group → gshadow)(The /etc/gshadow file is created)

□ grpunconv : It is linux command to change password policy(gshadow → group)(The /etc/gshadow file is deleted)

Test environment
O    S Ubuntu 15.10 (64bit) CPU Intel i7-4710MQ 2.50GHz
SHELL GNU bash (4.3.42) GPU Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D
RAM 984MiB