Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I usually have to test stuff out ;)
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:31 AM To: Mark Dascher Cc: Oliver Elphick; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:10:40AM -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: > OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the > /etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to > unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know > how; I'm just trying to see what I have to do to make it work like the man > page says. :) We don't support the old password aging. Why would you even want to use un-shadowed passwords? You do realize it opens your system to brute force attacks agains the password hashes, right? -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux -- WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
