From: marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: ELM problem (shadow passwords) Date: 31 Jan 1993 12:54:03 GMT
In article <C1oCHB.BwF@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG> steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:
>In article <1993Jan29.060937.22555@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
>>gt9922a@prism.gatech.EDU (KD4APQ) writes:
>>
>>>As root I can run elm with no problems. But if I login as another user, it
>>>tells me I have no password entry. Does anyone know what this means? Can
>>>it be resolved by re-compiling the source to it and make a minor change to
>>>the source? Any help would be appreciated. Either post the this group
>>>or send responses to gt9922a@prism.gatech.edu. Thanks.
>>
>>you're probably running shadow passwords with /etc/passwd not world
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>Doesn't making /etc/shadow world readable defeat the ENTIRE purpose of
>shadow passwords???
>
Read the post!! nobody said anything about /etc/shadow...
marc
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