Re: [Q] How to detect if shadow passwords are installed ?

To: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
Cc: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Q] How to detect if shadow passwords are installed ?
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 19:14:25 -0500 (EST)
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  Dirk> As shadow does exist as a group on non-shadow systems, 

  Joey>  Did you mean to say "As shadow does NOT exist as a group on
  Joey> non-shadow"? 

Yes.

  Joey> Perhaps the shadow group should be added to the default groups file
  Joey> for all systems, shadowed or not? Other programs will have this same
  Joey> problem in the future, I'm sure.

For sure.  CC'ed to the base-passwd maintainer.

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 Dirk Eddelb"uttel    edd@poboxes.com    http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?edd

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