Re: Use of the NetInfo passwd attribute for users
Re: Use of the NetInfo passwd attribute for users
- Subject: Re: Use of the NetInfo passwd attribute for users
- From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:44:09 +0100
On 19/07/06, Jason Townsend <email@hidden> wrote:
On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:
> Is this field used at all in 10.4.x?
>
> Will the OS ever use it during authentication for password
> verification?
Only if the authentication_authority for that user is either not
present or is set to ";basic;". However, you can read this attribute
using POSIX level calls like getpwnam(), so it is possible that legacy
software might assume a crypt password even when the auth authority
indicates it should not. This is the reason for the conventional
"********" marker value which is not a valid crypt password.
And also it's different from "*" which is traditionally used to
indicate accounts which cannot be logged in to.
-- Finlay
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