On 5/10/10 6:08 AM, "Muskoka Auto Parts Limited" <m...@map-heb.com> wrote:

> On 10-05-09 12:59 PM, John Horne wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 16:44 +0200, Michael Li wrote:
>>>              [ Warning ]
>>> [15:06:08] Warning: No shadow/password file found.
>>> 
>> You can set the following option in your config file:
>> 
>>     PASSWORD_FILE=<path to password file>
>> 
>> RKH will try and determine where the password file is located, but if it
>> cannot then you get the above warning. Use the config file option to
>> tell RKH where your password file is located.
>> (Note: For other OS's this is actually the 'shadow' file, the file which
>> contains the actual passwords. The test is to see if an account has no
>> password, and to do that we need to check the file containing the actual
>> passwords (the shadow file), rather than the file just containing the
>> account names (usually the passwd file.))
>> 
>> If you could let me know the pathname of your file (email me off list
>> preferably) then it may be useful to get RKH to check for that
>> automatically for OSX users (assuming you are using some sort of
>> standard password file for OSX systems). I'll add the pathname into the
>> RKH code.
>> 
>> Again a quick google: It seems a /etc/passwd or /etc/master.passwd file
>> may be present. If either is, then set it in the above option. If
>> neither is, then you need to disable the password file checks. To do
>> this add 'group_accounts' to the DISABLE_TESTS list.

Did this get fixed in the version we're testing?  It reported finding
/etc/master.passwd.

I have been using PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/passwd in my local patch file.  They
appear to be identical down to the timestamp.


-Al-
 
-- 
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA




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