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Shadow password support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Littlejohn)
Mon Nov 4 00:05:30 1996
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 12:59:07 +0800
From: Kevin Littlejohn <darius@reverie.bofh.net.au>
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Hi all,
Can anyone tell me, off-hand, whether RedHat is supporting shadow passwords
through the libc, or through a seperate libshadow? The reason I ask is
that,
when compiling ssh the other day, I found if I removed /etc/login.defs, it
compiled without shadow password support, yet allowed me to login to a
completely shadow'ed system. I'm assuming, therefore, that libc-5.3 as
distributed in the rpm's supports shadow.
If that's the case, does anyone have any hints or tips for migrating to a
libshadow system? I've noticed some "redhat-specific" patches to the
source
rpm for shadow, are they worth using?
(Does the above make enough sense? :)
KevinL
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