Re: mcserv / slackware / shadow

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello again!

I have removed support for the old-style Linux-only shadow library.  It
seems to be completely obsolete.  glibc provides an alternative, more
standard API (look for "System Databases and Name Service Switch" in the
libc info).

What is left in mcserv is PAM and plain crypt on the result of getpwnam().  
If you are using shadow passwords, you should be using PAM.  HAVE_PAM
should be defined in config.h if the configure script could find it.

If you are using shadow passwords without PAM and you want to use mcserv, 
then you are welcome to implement reading shadow passwords using NSS 
instead of getpwnam().

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin