[Paulo, please limit your lines to less than 80 characters] On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 10:15:17AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, >compile, put into /etc/pam_ncp.conf the Novell Server and the README tells >about this that I don't understand. What is starred password? The pam_ncp >is very RedHat centric.
>Notes: > The user must be in the password file to allow the user to login. If the > user hasn't a starred password the password in the file will work, > If the user has a starred password it will go to the Netware server. This means that if the user's password (the second field in /etc/shadow (or /etc/passwd if you're not using shadow passwords)) is set to "*", the user's password from the Netware server will be used; if it is not set to "*", that (encrypted) password will be used. See shadow(5) and passwd(5) for more information on /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd . HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
