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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:51:13 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Where do telnet server and ftp server find the user DB?
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Carfield Yim wrote:
> 
> Where do the telnet server and ftp server find the user name and the
> corresponding password? I have set inetd but seen to me that it have
> check the user name and password but just return user not found message.

Username, home directory, login shell: /etc/passwd.

Password: On NT/W2K in the SAM, on 9X/ME in /etc/passwd. In the latter
case: Use the tool `crypt' to generate a DES password for you and
insert it into the password field of /etc/passwd.

Corinna

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