Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!lll-winken!quintro!bep From: bep@quintro.uucp (Bryan Province) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: /etc/d_passwd Message-ID: <1991Mar27.201539.15746@quintro.uucp> Date: 27 Mar 91 20:15:39 GMT References: <9103211544.AA17273@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com> Organization: none Lines: 27 In article <9103211544.AA17273@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com> rand@HWCAE.CFSAT.HONEYWELL.COM writes: >>>>>> Bill Gutknecht at 20-Mar-91 in [/etc/d_passwd] writes: >> How do you use the /etc/d_users and /etc/d_passwd for added dialup security. >> The man pages ( section 1 of the manual under 'login' ) was not very helpful >> (surprise, surprise) ... I'm able to get the "Dialup password" prompt, but >> none of the passwords seem to work. > >There is a bug in the documentation at SR10.1 and SR10.2. It is >corrected at SR10.3. The format of the /etc/d_passwd file *SHOULD* be: > > /bin/sh:13-character-encrypted-password: > >(Note the trailing colon. This was missing in 10.1 and 10.2 >documentation.) > >The password must be encrypted with crypt(3). Thus, don't use an >encrypted password from /etc/passwd if the password for that account >was last changed at SR9.x. One other thing. The /etc/d_passwd file must have a blank line at the end. The Apollo hotline "actually" helped me with this :-) -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Bryan Province -Glenayre Corp., Quincy, IL- quintro!bep@lll-winken.llnl.gov "I tried putting instant coffee in the microwave, I almost went back in time." - Steven Wright