Re: Linux-privs

Trond Eivind =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Glomsr=F8d?= (teg@pvv.ntnu.no)
08 Apr 1998 09:25:23 +0200


<linker@nightshade.ml.org> writes:

> Expecting Linux distributions to do something smart is a big
>expectaion.. Do any ship with shadowed passwords enabled?

At least Red Hat ships with PAM, which is even better (I believe
Debian does so too). "pwconv", and you're shadowed - and if you want
to introduce other authentication methods, you just have to write one
small module.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
http://s9412a.steinan.ntnu.no/~teg/ ** teg@pvv.ntnu.no

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