On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:57:40PM +0200, Sebastian Werner wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>Why is in /etc a passwd and a passwd-
>               a shadow and a shadow-
>               a group	and a group-

I am pretty sure they are backups.

>
>it theems that each pair is equal... gentoo uses pam for authentifiction, or
>what?

Yes. We use PAM.


>
>
>And which is the normal why in gentoo to add a user? And why su don't work
>for a user which was added with the KDE-UserManager?

You need to add the user to group "wheel"

HTH
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