Re: Bug#5514: xdm doesn't support shadow passwords
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> > > > - we need shadow support for Debian 1.2, so if we really don't
> > > > want to upgrade to XFree3.2 right now, then the old version
> > > > should be patched (it might be a good idea to fix the libXt
> > > > buffer overrun at the same time, if we're going to recompile
> > > > the whole X source tree anyway).
> > >
> > > I'm afraid that the shadow password packages are still in experimental.
> > > It's too late now to move them into rex. They'll have to wait until
> > > Debian 1.3.
> >
> > This is new news to me! Does this mean that I can stop pushing on getting
> > shadow passwords into imap-4 and just release it "as is"?
>
> The only "imap" I could find in the distribution is in non-free, so the
Right. That one comes with the pine package. The author has written the
newer imap-4 package seperate from pine with a license free enought to go
into the distribution. This alone makes it a desirable replacement to the
package produced by pine..
> choice is really up to you. People using "rex" out of the box will not
> have shadow password capability, but people using "bo" probably will.
>
I now have patches to add shadow password capability in imap-4 and will
release it as soon as the details are complete.
Thanks,
Dwarf
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