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

2012-04-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:56:01PM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > 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? PAM can get stuffed, but there's no reason slock can

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

2012-04-08 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 4/7/12, Ben Secrest 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.