*BSD News Article 98570


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm
From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shadow or not to shadow?
Date: 27 Jun 1997 03:54:03 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <5ovdgr$itu@news.gvsu.edu>
References: <5ov2p3$9a7$2@gail.ripco.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43599

Dr. Who (mind@ripco.com) wrote:
: Ok, I'm working on putting together some other machines here with the intent
: on running FreeBSD.  I've not done this YET, but it's planned for the near
: future.

: What I'd like to know is this:  does freeBSD come with shadow passwords by
: default?  If not, what do I need to get them running (I know that Linux
: comes with a nice shadow password setup that works very nicely for me...
: will this same package work on BSD?)

2.2.2 (and I believe most 2.1 releases) come shadowed by default.

--
  Matt Behrens
  Zigg Computer Services
  zigg@iserv.net
  http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/