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Shadow discussions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Kirch)
Tue Mar 7 13:50:30 1995
From: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 19:21:37 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Hello all,
I have the feeling this discussion about shadow passwords is not
leading anywhere useful at the moment. As Rik explained, there are
good reasons why the shadow suite has been removed from most Linux
distributions, and I would expect things to stay that way. There are
better alternatives; proactive checking being but one. Another is
Kerberos.
Please let's stop this discussion, at least as far as it's only
concerned with why shadow passwords are better than plain passwd.
Olaf
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