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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/