[531] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
New beta release of the shadow suite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Wed Dec 20 02:43:00 1995
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
To: big-linux@netspace.org, linux-announce@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, shadow-list@neptune.cin.net
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:38:30 +0100 (MET)
[ Note: sunsite.unc.edu refuses connections right now - I couldn't
upload this version there. I will try again later. Please get
it from ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl instead. Thanks. --marekm ]
This is a new beta release of the Shadow Password Suite for Linux.
Many bugs have been reported (and fixed!), and the package is now
under a BSD-style copyright. It was written by John F. Haugh II
<jfh@rpp386.cactus.org>, and the Linux port is now maintained by me.
Again, this is beta software which may still have some bugs, please
treat it as such. Please don't install it if you don't know what
you're doing. Please test it as much as you can, and report any
bugs - if you report them, they will be fixed! If all goes well,
Shadow should be stable enough for general use within a few months.
Once it is stable, Linux distributions can start using it - there
are no copyright problems anymore.
Thanks to Greg Gallagher <ggallag@orion.it.luc.edu> there is now
a developers mailing list, shadow-list@neptune.cin.net. Send the
command "subscribe" to shadow-list-request@neptune.cin.net (NOT to
the mailing list itself!) to subscribe if you are interested.
LSM entry follows:
Begin3
Title: Shadow Password Suite
Version: 3.3.3-951218
Entered-date: 18DEC95
Description:
Keywords: login passwd security shadow
Author: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Maintained-by: marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Admin
shadow-951218.tar.gz
226373 bytes
md5sum: 717532096052a89c59a12501cc71d29c
Alternate-site: ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl /pub/linux/shadow
Original-site: ftp.uu.net ?
Platforms:
Copying-policy: BSD-like
End
Marek Michalkiewicz
marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl
