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Re: Shadow Passwords?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Swasey)
Mon Mar 6 20:21:38 1995
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199503061750.MAA02242@portal.stwing.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 15:28:43 -0500
From: "Frank Swasey" <frank_swasey@VNET.IBM.COM>
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
On Mon, 06 Mar 1995 12:50:08 EST Roman Gollent wrote:
>
>I was wondering if there was ever going to be a move to make shadowing
>a standard, ie: Have all distributions come with shadowing by
>default. Since there are many other Un*x os that come with shadowing
>turned on, why can't the same be done for Linux distributions, or at
>least the popular ones? This isn't a criticism, just an open question.
Wouldn't a reasonable first step toward making shadow passwords the standard
be to have a HOWTO document that gave the steps necessary to update a program
to use the shadow passwords? I know that's the part that has stopped me time
and time again from makeing the move to shadowed passwords (but then I'm not
connected to any networks, so it's not as important to me at this time).
Frank
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