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Re: Shadowed PW file under Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F. Haugh II)
Sun Apr 9 20:49:51 1995

From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
To: bonn@durian.usc.edu.ph (Cenon B.C. Marana Jr.)
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 9:01:03 CDT
Cc: lenex@psyber.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950408123103.6486B-100000@durian.usc.edu.ph>; from "Cenon B.C. Marana Jr." at Apr 8, 95 12:33 pm

> On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, lenex wrote:
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> > Could someone reccomend a good tool for shaddowing the PW file under Linux? 
> > This will be my first time setting one up so If you have a Howto that would
> > also be  much appreciated.
> 
> Me too.. how about for OSF/1? or is there a good/recommended tool for 
> such?

Same deal.  Shadow frequently requires some tweaking to make it run under
different OS's, but with work the login, su and passwd commands =should=
be usable.  However, I thought that OSF/1 already had "shadowed" passwords
as it borrowed some of its security model from SecureWare.
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