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From: yuf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyle Grieser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: passwd hashing
Message-ID: <2548@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 89 21:50:23 GMT
References: <2470@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: yuf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyle Grieser)
Organization: PUCC UNIX Group
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In article <2470@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>I have no idea what could be wrong.  Any clues?

	I am not sure that I can be of any help, but I recently did alot of
work with our accounting system.  We made everything use the 4.3 ndbm routines,
but we don't use yp.  The only thing that I can think might stop finger (along
with other programs) from using the dbm-ized data is that the getpwnam() and
getpwuid() routines in libc aren't smart enough to use it.  Are you sure you
compiled these with the knowledge of dbm?  Or, does the use of yellow-pages
take care of this for you?  Since I haven't worked with yp I am not sure of what
might or might not be affected by it.

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Kyle Grieser,  Purdue University Computing Center
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