I am not sure their method of "shadowing" passwords would be compatible with Linux. Though it would be an intersting experiment. But I have always been told when doing NIS, shadow is bad. Not sure if there was a technical reason, or just methodology. Jay On Wednesday 19 September 2001 07:48 am, you wrote: > <snip> > > |Also, you'll have to keep it from using a shadow map as all the other > |platforms don't support shadow passwords. > > <snip> > > I thought AIX did. I am looking at a 4.3.3 and 3.? machine. Both have ! > in the passwd files and have the hash in /etc/security/passwd, with the > security subdirectory restricted to the admin group. Or does that not > count as shadowed, since it is still in a file called passwd? > > Not flamebait, just curious :) > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain