passwords

[Sean]

I dont know about the other two either, but if they are using different
passwords schemes, and if you have a lot of users.. you might start
looking at LDAP. 



On 27 Jun 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> "Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Regular Users
> > -------------
> > 
> > I generate a normal user. The users password is kept in /etc/passwd. The shadow
> > password is kept in /etc/shadow. Are these two files kept in sync? I may chose
> > to use normal password or shadow passwords for authentication.
> 
> If you have shadow passwords installed, then no password is kept
> in /etc/passwd; passwords are only kept in /etc/shadow.
> 
> > NIS
> > ---
> 
> I dunno anything about NIS.
> 
> > Samba
> > -----
> 
> I dunno anything about Samba.
> 
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