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Subject: Re: new sgi xlogin software

> I think the standard procedure for non-shadow-password systems is
> to put a * in the passwd field. Was this an oversight? or done on
> purpose? or am I just confused, and people's hashed passwords
> do get put there?

The confused one.

If you want the "*" to be there, you can touch /etc/nocrack. This was
mainly added for the dialup DECstations, and I guess for fun I put it
into xlogin as well. I don't know for sure that it has no detrimental
effects on X logins, so it doesn't happen by default.

While I'm here, I forgot to mention that the new xlogin stuff also
puts your console tty into utmp, so that things like talk & write will
send output to the console appropriately.

Craig