Subject: Re: Shadow problems

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 10:32 PDT

Please work out with Guy Maor (loginutils maintainer) which login to make
standard. I think I will have the set-up script start the system with
shadow enabled, and let the user take it out if they must by removing
/etc/shadow .

	Thanks

	Bruce
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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 12:43 PDT

The "shadow" feature does not preclude use of NIS passwd and group maps.
Only users that have "*" as their password field will get their passwords
from /etc/shadow or /etc/gshadow (file names may vary).

If our NIS package replaces "passwd", etc., with NIS-master-server-aware
versions, that package would have to be updated. I think this is one reason
that people are experimenting with shared libraries for validation.

	Thanks

	Bruce