Re: chroot and spwd.db

[David Miller <is...@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Andrew Wilson wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> 	Mmm, nice idea.  I've passed this on to the rest of the 
> developers and I'm sure we'll consider this for the next release
> of the software.  If you have any hints as to *how* we'd do it,
> patches etc, then feel free to send them ;)

This isn't much help, but isn't there a nearly identical set of routines 
to access the pwd.db?  After all lots of users will want to access the 
pwd file but only root may use the spwd.

To the best of my (very limited) knowledge the only difference whether 
the password is encrypted or a "*".  My simple work around was to delete 
spwd.db an ln to it from pwd.

Thanks for considering it in future versions:)

--- David

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