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On Mar 12, 9:46pm, David Trueman wrote:
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} Group passwords are certainly required on linux. Until we can come up
} with a test for whether they are or are not required, I would like to
I've examined every machine to which I currently have access and
this is what I found:
machines that always have passwords
- SunOS 4.x
- ULTRIX 4.x
- NetBSD 1.x
machines that don't have passwords
- SunOS 5.x
- Slackware Linux
I know that due to the nature of Linux, userland can vary (sometimes
wildly) between the different distributions; but, are you sure that
Denebian Linux must have passwords, or are you just assuming this
because it is the convention?
} /etc/group i.e. a * in the second field of each line. In case you
} haven't yet discovered, CSuite uses that field for "supergroups",
} effectively creating a hierarchy of group control.
Could you elaborate on this?
}-- End of excerpt from David Trueman
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