Shadow and SAM

[TheJuiceman]

I am debating on putting shadow on one of my boxes. However I have read that shadow is not supported in SAM yet. How do you keep administrators from trying to use SAM to create a new user, etc? What happens if SAM is used on a shadowed system? Does it come back with an error or does it just write to /etc/passwd like normal?

Thanks.

[Ermin Borovac]

If this is 11.11 it looks like SAM supports /etc/shadow since PHCO_31312.

PHCO_31312:
Accounts for Users and Groups
Users subarea, SAM does not detect the
existence of the file /etc/shadow. It is not
able to utilize the password aging and account
lifetime information present in /etc/shadow
to display and manage the password aging
parameters of a user.
Resolution: SAM has been enhanced to support and manage
password aging and account lifetime features
present in the file, /etc/shadow. The user
Accounts for Users
Users subarea has not been
enhanced to support password aging and account
lifetime features in shadow mode.

JAGaf32077) SAM online help has to be updated to document
password aging and account lifetime features
Users
subarea when the system is in shadow mode.
Resolution: SAM online help has been updated to document
about password aging and account lifetime
Account for Users and
Users subarea when the system is in
shadow mode.