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Re: `/etc/passd' locking glibc/shadow, PAM?



--On Wed, May 6, 1998 8:07 pm -0700 "Karl M. Hegbloom"
<karlheg@inetarena.com> wrote: 

>  From what I can tell, the method for locking the passwd and shadow
>  files is not the same in glibc and the shadow utils.  Can anyone shed
>  some light on this?
> 
>  Is anyone working on porting PAM from Red Hat to Debian?  Is that
>  planned?

PAM is in frozen, but it's not actually used by any of the core system
(passwd, xdm, etc.).  I assume that is planned for slink.

Jules

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