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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:59:22 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Hello.

Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> > The password seems to be crypted. For the group password I get 'x',
> > which is what /etc/group contains for my user. This appears to be
> > equivalent tp a blank password field. This is on RedHat Linux 6.2 with
> > glibc 2.1.3.
> 
> Most Modern Un*x including GNU/Linux uses shadow passwd.  Meaning
> the actual passwd is now save in /etc/shadow and not readable by all.
[snip]

I'm not using shadow passwords right now. I don't have an /etc/shadow.
It's on my to-do list to work out how to do that. So, I wonder what effect
the 'x' has as the group password. 'newgrp' didn't ask for a password,
when I changed to a group I belong to, that had 'x' as its password entry.

> Some systems follow Solaris example by having PAM style auth.
> I believe GNU/Linux and *BSD came up with there PAM libs too.

Yep, Linux has PAM.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

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