From: Mike Jagdis (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/02/93 

From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: xdm source with shadow support + ftpd ditto
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 22:51:00 +0000

* Peter MacDonald <1993Feb2.040247.8361@tc.cornell.edu>,
  Peter MacDonald said (in comp.os.linux.announce):

PM> An interface with getpw* is included. This will get a
PM> password from /etc/shadow and overwrite the value in the pwd
PM> struct, only
PM> if /etc/shadow has a password for the user. Else, it uses
PM> the /etc/passwd one.

But this won't then support double length passwords or the '@' mechanism
will it?

                        Mike