Bug#316219: [Pkg-shadow-devel] passwd - please enable shadow by default on firsttime installation

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:30:08AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Is there any situation where shadow is a bad thing? I mean, does someone
> > somewhere on the earth really need this feature?
> The template mentions that shadow passwords can be nasty in NIS
> environments.

Yes, but only with libc5 and probably with very ancient
versions of nis.

I.e. modern nis and libc don't have problems with
shadow passwords except for correctly configuring nis
(/var/yp/Makefile) and /etc/shadow (adding "+" lines).
-- 
WBR,
xrgtn