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May 4, 1993
Included with IBM's TCP/IP is a neat UNIX-like login for incoming telnet
sessions. In order to use this login facility, one must rename the old
login.exe, copy loginunx.exe to login.exe and grab a passwd file from
a UNIX host.
However, IBM included no passwd file maintenance utilities. So, I decided
to fill this void.
Included in this package are two programs: passwd and nopasswd. passwd
is just like the UNIX passwd program except that it asks for the userid
(if not included on the command line). This means that you must know the
old password to change it to a new password. This doesn't help when setting
up new users very much, so I also included nopasswd - which doesn't ask
for the old password. This means that in order to add a new user to your
OS/2 machine, you must create an entry for them in your \tcpip\etc\passwd
file WITH 13 FILL CHARACTERS in password field (just after the userid:).
Then, run nopasswd to set the new password.
NOTE: All passwd and nopasswd look at (in the passwd file) are the first
two fields on each line. Easiest way to set up a new passwd file is to
initially grab one from UNIX machine.
Oh yeah, both programs need emx.dll.
Have fun,
Chance C. Geurin (geurin@nosc.mil)