On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > > Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords > > in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these > > accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS.
> The question is about the default setting. Maybe, but I don't understand why the question is asked at all, since you have absolutely no advantage by choosing the insecure variant. Simon -- PGP public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: 10 62 F6 F5 C0 5D 9E D8 47 05 1B 8A 22 E5 4E C1 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]