Lorens Kockum said something to the effect of:
"Why get asked at all whether to run shadow passwds?"
There are multiple buffer overrun bugs in the shadow
passwd suite as used by debian. The bugs seem to take
different forms in hamm than they do in bo; I'm not sure
why. I reported this as a critic
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> Only one thing I don't really like: sure, we do get shadow
> passwords if we ask for them (and oh joy, xlock knows that!)
> but why do we get asked at all? Are there any reasons at all
> for keeping crypted passwords in /etc/passwd ?
In debian-user, I wrote an inane test message, not even setting
the subject to "test" ;-/.
Just because I was completely certain it wouldn't get out.
So much for certainty.
To make up, debian success story. Except for fighting with
deselect a bit, like everyone, especially the first time
round, in
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