Re: Shadow problems

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

The "shadow" feature does not preclude use of NIS passwd and group maps.
Only users that have "*" as their password field will get their passwords
from /etc/shadow or /etc/gshadow (file names may vary).

If our NIS package replaces "passwd", etc., with NIS-master-server-aware
versions, that package would have to be updated. I think this is one reason
that people are experimenting with shared libraries for validation.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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