On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +0000, Lorens Kockum wrote:
> > Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in
> > /etc/passwd ?
> 
>       NIS is notorious for not working with shadowed passwords

Of course, forgot that.  Should have stayed in bed yesterday.

As a corollary, where do you find the source of the programs 
executed during the install of debian?  I ask because I wanted
to check if the install points out the NIS problem when it asks
whether to use shadow passwords.


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