Re: Password files

[Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>]

Hmm while we doing this can we add the MD5 passwords?

Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
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On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:26:30 -0700
> From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>
> To: tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de
> Cc: dhs@firefly.com, debian-user@Pixar.com, bruce@Pixar.com
> Subject: Re: Password files 
> 
> 
> tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de said:
> > Is the shadow password stuff part of the standard libraries (and uses 
> > the standard C functions like getpwnam)?
> 
> Yes. I think the way it works is that you only get the real
> pw_passwd field if you are root - otherwise you get a "*" there if that 
> particular user has a shadowed password. "*" will not match any encrypted
> password, it's too short, and it won't match a null password.
> I think all I have to do is merge the code into
> the ELF libc and it will work for all of the shared library applications. If
> we have static-linked applications they will have to be relinked.
> 
>    Thanks
> 
>    Bruce
> 
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