mgetty and shadow passwords

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:09:57 +0200

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Hi,

liberty wrote:
> does mgetty support shadowed passwords, if so, how do I do it? I thought
> I saw something about "has-shadow" somewhere, but I can't find it now.

mgetty doesn't support any kind of passwords.

Login authentication is done by /bin/login, or by "pppd".  Mgetty will
NEVER ask for a password, and will NEVER check vs. passwd, shadow, or
whatever.

gert

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