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@@ -37,10 +37,18 @@ username:crypted_passwd[34] in the case of MD5 crypted passwords. The
latter is thanks to Warwick Duncan <warwick@chemeng.uct.ac.za>. pam_pwdfile
also handles bigcrypt passwords.
-Warwick has also written a utility for managing the password files that
-pam_pwdfile uses. Please see: http://eclipse.che.uct.ac.za/chpwdfile/
+NOTES:
+-----
-Note that we still expect users to have accounts in the usual place, as we
+* Also have a look at the files in the contrib subdirectory.
+ Especially if you're having trouble building paw_pwdfile, the
+ Makefile.standalone could be your new friend.
+
+* Warwick has also written a utility for managing the password files that
+pam_pwdfile uses. The website has disappeared, but I've mirrored the
+source code here: http://cpbotha.net/files/mirror/chpwdfile-0.24.tar.gz
+
+* Note that we still expect users to have accounts in the usual place, as we
make use of the pam_pwdb.so module for the account service. This module is
just so that one can have multiple sets of passwords for different services,
e.g. with our /etc/imap.passwd. It is however possible with certain