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

[Julie]

From: Seageraves Caren <cgreat2002 at yahoo.com>
> 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.

And if you're ever looking to chat about shadow passwords
the author of the Linux Shadow Password Suite is a
subscriber to this list ...

-- Julie.