Re: About cygnus passwords and users

[mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)]

Hi Todd,

[...]
>and then after you've done that, how is the resulting output used?
>i ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>they are created with an empty password field.  i tried to use some of the
>programs which i thought may reference these files, such as login, telnetd
>and sshd, and login authentication failed for all of these.
>
>does the /etc/passwd file have to be populated with passwords?  if so,
>should they be standard unix des encrypted passwords? (ie. can i simply
>copy a password from a unix host?)  does this depend on whether the
>programs (eg. login) were compiled with a certain libcrypt?
>
>are all the answers to these questions documented somewhere?  if so, sorry
>for wasting bandwidth and please just point me at the proper place to look.

The answers are documented *somewhere* :)
A great place to find answers are the archives of the mailing list
itself.
Back to your question regarding passwords: /etc/passwd created with
mkpasswd is only necessary to provide the usernames, the password is
taken from the NT SAM by programs, which can deal with this feature, for
example Sergey Okhapkin's telnetd.
So if you don't have those programs or even worse are using Window 95,
there is no chance at all to use an /etc/passwd !

>
>--
>Todd Pfaff                         \  Email: pfaff@mcmaster.ca

Bye.
Michael.
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