Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!antel!mike
From: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Shadow passwords
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.143243.7288@antel.uucp>
Date: 29 Dec 89 14:32:43 GMT
References: <6637@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1989Dec27.125642.3097@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
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Organization: Antel Optronics Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1989Dec27.125642.3097@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <6637@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, jdp@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce) writes:
>> I also remember reading awhile back in the AT&T release notes for a
>> 3B2/700 I was upgrading, something about "shadow passwording is not 
>> compatible with all applications, the general symptom is you will 
>> not be able to log into the machine."  Or something similar.  Anyone
>> had any problems??
>
>The problem is that if you have another program that is used to getting
>the password out of /etc/passwd it will have to be modified to look for
>the password in /etc/shadow.  All of the system utilities in 2.0.2 
>use the /etc/shadow file (this includes login, passwd, telnet, and rlogin)

I know of at least rexec which still doesn't get it right.  Rexec'ing from
2.0.2 to 1.0.6 works just fine; going the other way fails because the
password validation fails.  This was also broken in 2.0.1, which I reported
to my vendor.  I had hoped, but didn't really expect, that it would be
fixed in 2.0.2.  Maybe in 2.2?

mike borza.
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