Re: How to limit it ?
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Grzegorz Pawel Szostak wrote:
> >
> > What for ?
> > There is no sensitive information in /etc/passwd if you have shadow
> > passwords.
> ... but anybody can send message to anybody with simple shell script ...
> Pawel, there is a war ... only root should be able to send message to
> anybody (if he wants). There is a lot of spam around us :)
>
Thus - the solution is PAM and external database (SQL) for authentication.
P.
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