[3870] in testers
Re: libal and encrypted passwds for existing accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Aug 6 15:50:28 1998
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:50:15 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3856] in testers"
> An unexpected behavior change in the 8.2 release is that libal will
> not update the encrypted password entry for a user who already has
> an entry in /etc/passwd.
I just checked on this, and in fact, under 8.1 xlogin also would not
give you an encrypted password entry if you're already in the passwd
file.
That saves me a lot of effort.
