Re: etc/passwd file

From: David Webb (david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk)
Date: 10/29/02 

From: david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk (David Webb)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:28:20 +0000 (UTC)

In article <slrnartcsh.fub.eirik@kain.mi.uib.no>, eirik@mi.uib.no (Eirik Seim) writes:
>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:29:09 +0000 (UTC), David Webb wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> The trouble is that there are still Unix systems out there relying just on
>> /etc/passwd - no shadow password file or other protections.
>
>One of them, HP-UX, has something called 'trusted mode' that will move the
>hashed passwords to /tcb/files/auth/r/root (for user root), and similar.
>
>Any Unix systems out there (I read this as Unixes still beeing sold) that
>does not deliver anything like this? If so, I'd like to know which.
>

I think most now provide some form of shadowed passwords but this is not
generally the default. Hence there are large numbers of systems which still
just use the /etc/passwd storage of passwords.

David Webb
VMS and Unix team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University

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