That's what I have been using.
username:x:uid:gid:Name:homedir:shell
The x in the password field should tell the system to use shadow passwords,
just like /etc/passwd
At 03:18 PM 11/13/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hiya,
>
> > > Anyone got an authorative answer on what should be in the
> AuthUserFile....
> >
> > It should be in the same format as /etc/passwd (I believe this is
> > covered in the docs).
>
>Yep....I got that one....but peoples /etc/passwd are different....can you use
>shadow passwords then (i know this is a silly point).
>
>Also from working with the authfile, while the last field is normaly your
>shell,
>it seems to be your default directory.
>
>So yes, same format, but with different meaning, and hence i asked if
>someone had some authoritive answer on what the fields are
>
>eg USERNAME:ENCRYPTED
>PASSWORD:UID:GID:DESCRIPTION:DEFAULT PATH
>
>Thats my guess....but i'm not sure, and it certainly aint clear !
>
>cya,
> Lee
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