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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 3 Aug 1995 21:42:02 GMT
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
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In article <3vpmse$g6a@bpeters.cyber.mn.org>,
Bruce Peterson <peterson@bpeters.cyberoptics.com> wrote:
| You said 'easily available' instead of 'included'--does that mean one
| just has to ftp to someplace to get them? (Not everybody has ftp access.)
| Also, are shadow passwords installed 'out of the box' with Linux, yet?
Not in the commercial grade release (1.2.x series). It really has to
be done at the library level to work right, using the versions of
all the routines which will "work right" with or without shadow.
JFH has posted several times saying that there is no restriction to
using or distributing the parts of this code needed, but we still
don't have it. It would avoid having to build your own {everything}
to have minimal security.