Re: Linux-privs

Steve Dunham (dunham@cps.msu.edu)
09 Apr 1998 16:47:16 -0400


teg@pvv.ntnu.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes:

> <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.

Debian has a package for the pam library, but few programs use it. :(

Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu

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