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Re: Shadow password policy



Previously Chris wrote:
> My question is:  Can I produce a package that only supports shadow
> passwords, or will I need to modify the code to autodetect if shadow
> passwords are on or not.

Why would that package access the passwd directly? One of the Debian
goals is moving to PAM, in which cases accessing the passwd is quite
broken..

Wichert.

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