[techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

[Seageraves Caren]

Than you for the suggetion about shadow passwords and
PAM.  I spent a good bit of the morning learning about
these and I feel it was time well spent.  I feel I
will look into using PAM when I need to do program
specific authorization in the future.  And I feel
releived to know what shadow passwords are. I kept
hearing about them but they were not around when I was
introduced to UNIX and I kept not finding the time to
go back and look at them.

It turned out there is no mention of my account on the
local machine, but I forgot that I am part of a
network and that my machine could get the password 
and account information over the network.  I feel a
bit silly. I only use this account locally, because
the servers I access regualar have each have their own
account system.

Thanks again, 

Caren


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