Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> /etc/passwd like on HP-UX 11.00. Ie. no /etc/shadow. > > /etc/shadow was provided by an additional package and libraries. Just like > PAM. Shadow changed from > being a security measure to be an auth storage backend.
Yep. > As a storage backend, it needs libraries to > access it. That's where PAM enters. You don't need PAM to access /etc/shadow. There are different ways. You have the option to use PAM to access /etc/shadow. But there's no requirement to do so. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
