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Mon Apr 2 15:50:37 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/113198.html

Using Python 1.5.2 (and earlier) on BSDi, the pwd module's getpw...
functions are able to retrieve the encrypted password (from
/etc/master.passwd) if run as root.

Using Python 1.5.2 and 2.1b1 on Linux (RH 6.2), the functions do not
similarly dig the encrypted password out of /etc/shadow.

Is the latter action intentional, or is something not being set up
right by
./configure
in building Python on RH 6.2?

Thanks.

  --John (who will be trying to figure out the answer in his copious
free time)
-- 
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
(stolen, of course)

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