Ok to switch from Crypt to Shadow Password?

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Tue Jan 1 12:18:27 PST 2008


Let's ask a different question:  What are you trying to achieve?

- Jordan

On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Hello all --
>
> I am happily running Leopard Server and installing MacPorts 1.6.0.  
> Some of the ports install users in the local directory domain (with  
> Leopard Apple has officially done away with NetInfo by the way).  
> There is an option using Workgroup Manager -- a GUI tool only  
> bundled by Apple with Mac OS X Server, to change the password type  
> of local directory domain users (for example, the user "ldap"  
> installed by MacPorts as part of the openldap port) from crypt to  
> Shadow Password. Has anyone ever tried this and if so are there any  
> reasons not to switch from crypt to Shadow Password?
>
> Thank,
>
> -T.M.
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