Hi! On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:30:08AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Is there any situation where shadow is a bad thing? I mean, does someone > > somewhere on the earth really need this feature? > The template mentions that shadow passwords can be nasty in NIS > environments.
Yes, but only with libc5 and probably with very ancient versions of nis. I.e. modern nis and libc don't have problems with shadow passwords except for correctly configuring nis (/var/yp/Makefile) and /etc/shadow (adding "+" lines). -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
