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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Password Pipe
Message-ID: <19126@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 28 Mar 91 05:40:20 GMT
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In article <16528@sunquest.UUCP> jew@charon.sunquest.com (J. E. Ward) writes:
>I did this once, not too long ago.  The easiest way I found to do it was
>to do root remsh commands to edit the /etc/passwd file directly.  Be sure
>to follow whatever proceedure is in place on your system for editing the
>/etc/passwd file.  And if you're doing it on AIX, BE CAREFUL!

Not to rain on your AIX-bashing parade, but AIX versions differ greatly
from one release to the next.  Both versions 2 and 3 have "shadow"
password files, which is also a feature of SVR3.2 and SVR4.  This isn't
just an IBM feature, although the implmentation is IBM-specific.
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