On Monday 06 June 2005 18:54, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >Did you see man 5 shadow? > > yes > man 5 shadow (this all there is about the password field): > The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to > 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9, > interpreted. > > > I've used freenx > > successfully with no need to touch /etc/shadow. > > Me too. I just started wondering what the difference was
This information seems to be outdated. My root passwort in /etc/shadow consists of more then 30 characters and also contains other characters then those in the 64 character set mentioned. -- ________________________________________________________________ Hans-Gunther Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg Hermann-Herder-Str. 10, D79104 FREIBURG Tel.: +49 761/203-4652 Fax: +49 761/203-4643 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
