Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 21:04:31 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords? Message-ID: <199805080204.VAA04787@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com> of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:56:42 EDT." <Pine.SUN.3.96.980507165441.26992A-100000@omni1>
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Peter Schwenk writes: > Hello All, > > I'm wondering: does FreeBSD do shadow passwords? I'd like to use an > /etc/shadow file, but there's no mention in the man pages. Is this > missing from FreeBSD? No, it the other way around. FreeBSD doesn't do non-shadowed passwords. Oops, my 5th grade teacher beat into us, "Never say never because never is never right." If you export your user database with NIS then your hashed passwords will be visible to those who know to look. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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