[330] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: kerberized tty login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 24 12:35:06 1994
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:34:42 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[327] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
Ask and you shall receive:
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 11:53:43 -0500
> From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
> (Personally, I'd like to see the shadow stuff disappear off the face
> of the earth, but it's unlikely to happen.)
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 19:26:15 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ian A Murdock <imurdock@shell.portal.com>
> the shadow password suite will not be supported in Debian
> Linux anymore, as apparently it is not free software (I was
> asked to pay license fees).
It's probably being dropped from Slackware and libc for the same
reason. With any luck, this will be the incentive for someone to do
shadow passwords right. Anyway, it'll make things easier on us.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
