On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Stefan Walder wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? > > > > Thanks > > Stefan > > I'm using the shadow packages from project/experimental, and it works all > right. There were two or three binaries I belive which didnt support it: > imapd, xdm, and ssh. I don't need the first two, so I just recompiled sshd > (got the source and ran debian/rules ) > > Greg > > Ps: there are other problems with shadow/ssh, such as ssh doesnt use > /bin/login, so /etc/limits, and password aging doesnt work with ssh > I don't know about the ssh and imapd problem but for xdm, the xbase pckg have an xdm-shadow binary. Two solutions: backup xdm and make a link from xdm-shadow to xdm, or change the /etc/init.d/xdm script to use xdm-shadow in place of xdm. And if security is your business, looks at os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ss* for sstelnet and sslayet though I don't try it enough to say if it work well... Fabien.
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