Re: [dev] [slock] Issue with shadow passwords and NIS

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

On 4/7/12, Ben Secrest <blsec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure the best way to differentiate between the shadow vs. NIS
> situation.  One guess is that when shadow information is present, the
> pw_passwd field of the passwd struct will contain 'x', '*', or
> whatever the system uses as a placeholder in /etc/passwd.
>
Slock should use a high-level authentication interface that will
perform whatever authentication the site administrator requires. How
much does this list hate or love PAM?