Cameron, Steve wrote :
|| (I'm new to AIX, (< 3 weeks) but this is how it appears to me.
||
|| As for password shadowing...Hmm. not sure.
||
|| there are no encrypted passwords in my /etc/passwd file, only
|| "!" for every password "man 2 getspnam" comes up empty, and
|| config.cache indicates "configure" couldn't find getspnam() either.
|| And there is no /etc/shadow file. So I don't know where IBM has
|| decided to keep the passwords.
||
|| So I suspect using system passwords on aix may be broken,
|| but I haven't tried it since I'm only running CVS as a client on aix.
AIX password values, along with other serurity control info, is kept
in /etc/security/passwd.
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