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Re: PAM and shadow passwords - How do I enable it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Wed Oct 23 20:29:25 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "23 Oct 1996 20:12:47 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:27:21 -0400
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Trond Eivind Glomsr d writes:
>"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> I should point out that xlock, vlock, and the user configuration tool
>> will no longer work. Other than that, everything we are aware of will
>> work fine.
>
>vlock works fine with PAM here. The other programs don't work, though.
>(But an earlier development version of xlock did. What happened?)
vlock works fine with PAM, yes. But it won't work with *shadow
passwords*, nor will xlock, because they don't have permission
to read /etc/shadow unless you have mucked around with group
permissions.
michaelkjohnson
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