On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Tres Melton wrote: > I had a problem with the shadow suite putting an '!' for a non-password > somewhere before and had to patch the source to make it use an '*' > instead. It was in an old Slackware release. I haven't had the time to > investigate this yet. I don't understand why the shadow suite uses an '*' > for accounts with non-passwords when it converts regular /etc/passwd files > and uses an '!' for all new non-passwords. A feature maybe? I don't even > know if this is the problem. This is a not a security issue for here, you should to subscribe to the mailing lists on redhat.com. The fix is edit /etc/pam.d/passwd to: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok shadow md5 nullok Regards, Chris Bond. -- Regards, From Chris. --==== SysOp of Logics BBS ====-- irc Nickname: |Fingers| Chrisat_private Tel: +44 (0) 1432 370535 ---================--- Data: +44 (0) 1432 278319 http://www.uk.logics.com/ Pager:+44 (0) 1523 459522 or fingersat_private ...Software is like sex. It's better when it's free...
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