Ok to switch from Crypt to Shadow Password?

[Tabitha McNerney]

Hello all --

I am happily running Leopard Server and installing MacPorts 1.6.0. Some of
the ports install users in the local directory domain (with Leopard Apple
has officially done away with NetInfo by the way). There is an option using
Workgroup Manager -- a GUI tool only bundled by Apple with Mac OS X Server,
to change the password type of local directory domain users (for example,
the user "ldap" installed by MacPorts as part of the openldap port) from
crypt to Shadow Password. Has anyone ever tried this and if so are there any
reasons not to switch from crypt to Shadow Password?

Thank,

-T.M.
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