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Re: Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)



baptista@cos.ufrj.br (Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira) writes:

> 
> 	Hi Debian users,
>         In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login into
> 	Linux using Novell account.
>         I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells about this that I don't understand. What is starred password? The pam_ncp is very RedHat centric.
> 	Notes:
>         The user must be in the password file to allow the user to login.
>         If the user hasn't a starred password the password in the file
>         will work,
>         If the user has a starred password it will go to the Netware server.
> 	Thanks a lot for any pointers.
> 	Have a good day,		Paulo Henrique

A starred password means there is a * instead of the encrypted
password in the /etc/passwd file.

Christoph

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Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany
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