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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-03-02 04:29:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-03-02 04:29:23 (GMT) |
| commit | c8c45c25acf1f7662fc6029967625ed03862b975 (patch) | |
| tree | 796776efac10090289b835c9cbef1bb24f1863ab /Doc | |
| parent | 4afe154369c1741bcdba1e7d715e0609082dea43 (diff) | |
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Improve (?) description of system dependence of access to the pw_passwd
field on systems that support shadow passwords.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libpwd.tex | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex b/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex index c04b463..0c74d26 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex @@ -29,9 +29,12 @@ The uid and gid items are integers, all others are strings. contains a password encrypted with a DES derived algorithm (see module \refmodule{crypt}\refbimodindex{crypt}). However most modern unices use a so-called \emph{shadow password} system. On those unices the -field \code{pw_passwd} only contains a asterisk (\code{'*'}) or the +\var{pw_passwd} field only contains an asterisk (\code{'*'}) or the letter \character{x} where the encrypted password is stored in a file -\file{/etc/shadow} which is not world readable.} +\file{/etc/shadow} which is not world readable. Whether the \var{pw_passwd} +field contains anything useful is system-dependent. If available, the +\module{spwd} module should be used where access to the encrypted password +is required.} It defines the following items: |