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all releases: ftpd doesn't understand the "*" in the password field

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Fri May 27 10:14:27 1988

Date: Fri, 27 May 88 10:13:51 EDT
From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
I run an FTP server on garp.  My users can't use it because their
password entries look something like this:

swa:*:17344:31:Steven Augart,SWA,506T,6061,6174986350:/users/swa:/bin/csh

and ftpd doesn't know that the "*" means "ask kerberos for the
password field"...

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