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Bryan Stansell bryan@conserver.com
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:55:47 -0700 (PDT)
Ooops...as a friend just reminded me, the other potential issue is reading shadow password files. If your system uses them and you use '*passwd*' as the password entry in the conserver.passwd file, user authentication will fail (since only root can read the shadow password entries). To get around this, just put the encrypted password in the conserver.passwd file. Some would say doing that decreases your security (effectively no longer using shadow password files), but if you're using the console client on another host, you have bigger security concerns 'cause the passwords are going over the wire in the clear. So, take it all with a grain of salt. Bryan