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Re: Announce: PAM development RPMs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cristian Gafton)
Mon Nov 25 09:09:53 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:07:49 +0200 (EET)
From: Cristian Gafton <gafton@sorosis.ro>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Chris Evans wrote:
> However, password expiry, to be honest, is completely knackered. Perhaps
> the expected order of shadow expiry information has changed from the old
> format. Who knows, but my password which is in fact due to expire in 3
> days (as reported by shadow tools), is regarded as having expired ~47 days
> ago. Hence all user accounts are stuffed.
Could you please mail me such an entry ? I'll have to check, although I
think this works okay on my system...
> I've now got to choose between messing with /etc/shadow for every user :-(
> or grabbing the libpwdb source and disabling expire information :-)
If I can figure out what is happening, I'll provide updated RPMs
> Better still, maybe there is an option I can put in pam.conf or
> pwdb.conf..?
Unfortunately, not yet.
> Fixes appreciated!
Please allow one day for delivery :-)
Cristian Gafton
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