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The utilities will work properly whether shadowing is enabled or not.

The utilities have been slightly modified to support Red Hat's user private group scheme. For a

description of the modifications, see the

useradd

man page. For more information on user private

groups, turn to Section 5.4.

The

adduser

script has been replaced with a symbolic link to

/usr/sbin/useradd

.

The tools in the

shadow utils

package are not Kerberos, NIS, hesiod, or LDAP enabled. New

users will be local only. For more information on Kerberos and LDAP, see Chapter 10 and Chapter

18.