Encrypted and cleartext at the same time?

[Michael Stone]

> From: Leslie Mikesell <les at Mcs.Net>
> just work transparently.  How are other people dealing with the
> problem of keeping the system and samba passwords in sync as
> users change them and expect the same one to work for POP, etc.?

I've replaced passwd with a combination of perl and expect that
authenticates a user and calls various other programs to set passwords.
(I've got samba encrypted passwords, apache passwords and APOP
passwords.) I also put a https front end on it, since the system
password for almost all the users is '*'. It's ugly and kludgey, but it
does work.

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