Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!killer.Dallas.TX.US!wisner From: wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: shadow passwords? Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 88 20:26:42 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 The latest releases of System V (from AT&T R&D) have a shadow password file called /etc/private. The time at which a user's password was last changed is stored in private so password changing can be disallowed unless a certain time has passed. It also allows mandatory changing after a certain interval; but then, what doesn't? private can also contain a "dead login date" after which an account will be unusable.