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Re: shared root account



On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:17:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:45PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:29:32AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > nice to know pam_pwdfile gained md5 support, iirc it only did the
> > > anchient crappy crypt before.. 
> > > 
> > > now there just needs to be a passwd command to work with this... 
> > 
> > htpasswd
> 
> doesn't provide proper restrictions and authentication.  (for other
> uses then sudo passwords).
> 
> whats really needed is a passwd command that behaves exactly the same
> as passwd, only with alternate passwd files.

Hmm, shouldn't some PAM-aware passwd implementation be able to do this?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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