PAM takes care of this. look in /etc/pam.d/* unfortunetly the password
requiring program doesn't use pam. get a version that does.
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Sean A. Walberg wrote:
>
> Since they require access to the shadow'ed passwords, they need to be
> recompiled or reconfigured for support for shadowing. Converting a
> standard box to a shadow one is a pain in the @$$ because many
> applications (xlock, popper, etc) require recompilation. You'd think that
> libc would take care of stuff like that, but I'm sure there is a good
> reason :)
>
> Sean
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, David A. Ranch wrote:
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> >
> > > I used the "pwunconv" from RH and converted my password files back
> > >to normal in SUSE. Thanks a bunch. For some reason, I was not able to lock
> > >the screen with my password after converting to shadowed password. Thats
> > >why i converted it back.
> >
> > Using Xlock or vlock? Both work fine for me.
> >
> > --David
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