On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:16:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * On the webpage, you mention problems with shadow: > I had the exact same problem with FreeBSD, and I see two choices. Either use > native passwd, adduser, etc. or get the shadow package to build a library (I > believe it can, but it's disabled), and recompile the Debian passwd and > friends > with that. Then it's just a matter of getting PAM working.
Ok, it turns out that this doesn't look too bad. In shadow-foo/lib we have a stack of code that performs the actual manipulation of the files, with all the utilities using that. There's code there for manipulation of dbm-style passwd files, so it shouldn't be too difficult to hack in code to support the NetBSD password databasesand then just call pw_mkdb afterwards. What we do lose is any ability to use the extended features that are offered over traditional password files, but we keep the ability to use PAM. Combining both sets of features into one set of tools looks like a little more work :) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
