Sounds like i can skip this then. Thx. Sent from my iPhone
> On 1 Aug 2018, at 17:52, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > >> On 2018-08-01 13:58, Michael wrote: >> a) I am looking at getting spwd integrated from AIX >> >> b) only the parameter sp_pwdp is my concern - as AIX really does not >> want to reveal the encrypted password. Rather, AIX will say '!' (meaning >> there is, or should be a shadow password, or '*' - no user password). >> Would this horribly break things if only '!' was returned, rather than >> the shadow password? >> >> It does not look terribly hard - but how do you deal with defaults such >> as 0 or -1 for the numeric values? > > Please note that I'm planning to deprecate and remove the spwd module. > The module has several limitation. Most importantly it bypasses the PAM > stack. Therefore it's not compatible with password policies or other > password storages like LDAP. > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/aixtools%40felt.demon.nl _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
