Whoops. Sorry about that. Wrong list. :)
At 10:35 AM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>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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