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Re: Shadow Passwords



There is now a HOWTO for this.  See the normal Linux HOWTO locations. 
However, I guess the problem would be, if you make your system use shadow
passwords, installing some (many?) Debian packages after this will most 
likely not work at all.  

Gerry
gerry@blue.intele.net

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:

> 
>   Donald Lambert writes:
>   Donald>  Hello, I was wondering if debian has a package for shadowing
>   Donald> passwords.
> 
> No, there is a copyright problem with the shadow suite for Linux. It seems
> that a new Linux shadow package with a more suitable copyright is in the
> works.
> 
>   Donald>   As well what would be involved to shadow the passwords 
> 
> Err, do you know what shadow passwords are? All it means is that the
> world-readable file /etc/passwd does no longer contain the encrypted password
> which are moved to the file /etc/shadow which is only root-readable. They are
> hence hidden from crackers. "In the shadow" as opposed to "in the sunlight".
> 
> In case your question meant "what would be involved to create a shadow
> password suite", the answer is "a lot". Check the mailing list archive for
> debian-devel on http://www.debian.org where some other schemes were also
> discussed not too long ago.
> 
> --
> Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
> 
> 


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