[4448] in testers
Re: linux 8.4-beta: oddities.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sun Jun 11 16:18:19 2000
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200006111417.KAA01091@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21L.0006111613560.20774-100000@well.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Looking at the code, it's even more specific than this: sshd is only
> picky if your password field is "x" (which means "look in the shadow
> file for the password for this user"). I think that's reasonable, so
> sshd doesn't need to be modified.
I looked at the machine's passwd file, and it is indeed inconsistent
about whether it uses a "x" or a "*" for users' passwords. (I assume
that some of the entries were added by the standard login procedure, and
other entries were added by a script that pulled them out of hesiod.)
It sounds like a reasonable course of action is for us to just clean up
the passwd file by hand.
-Jake
