Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Shadow Passwords
From: Georg Schwarz (schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Mon Aug 17 1998 - 02:54:58 EDT
> G'day,
> My name is Steve Guest.
> I hope this isn't too presumptuous emailing you direct.
> I am a designer living in Melbourne Australia.
> I have recently had a chap set up Linux on a PC to serve my 3 Macs to
> the Net.
> Unfortunately I am only able to Log On as a Guest, because of the Shadow
> Passwords.
> I think linux is requiring Clear Text and the OS8 is doing something
> different.
>
> Wondering if you have any advice?
at least A. Sun's version can be configured to support shadow passwords.
I'm runing such a setup. And of course it works fine with OS8. This has
nothing to do with clear text. Passwords are always *transmitted* in plain
text with Netatalk.
-- Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de Institut für Theoretische Physik Tel. +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130 Technische Universität Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/ Sekr. PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin IRC: kuroi
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