Donald> I do know there are linux machines using shaddowed passwords, Donald> what are they using ??
Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that "all" I had to do to enable shadow passwords was to get the shadow suite that was then (is still?) maintained by Florian LaRoche. Build a lib, recompile all binaries that need (ie login, ftpd, su, ... quite some) and link them against the new shadow lib. I did that with my pre-Debian system some 15 or so month ago. Life's too short to do that regularly. Donald> Is it the debian group that are writing the shadow suite, which Donald> would mean it would not be useable by say slackware ?( am I correct Donald> in my assumptions?) Err, yes. But packages, especially system binaries are not generally interchangeable among distributions in the first place. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
