Re: Another shadow question

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Guy Maor) wrote:
> >From my understanding of shadow passwords, it is possible to make
> programs work both with and without shadowing.  I'm the maintainer of
> all the programs mentioned except su.  Perhaps, David, you could put
> the source somewhere so I and the other affected developers could look
> at it?

I would advise you to have a good look at libpam. It is a library
of access and authentication methods with possible plugins. I haven't
tried it myself but it looks promising.

http://gluon.physics.ucla.edu/~morgan/pam/

Mike.
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