On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:26:00AM -0400, Phanidhar Koganti wrote: > There is this sp_flags field in the /etc/shadow file which is reserved > for future use. > Does anyone have any idea if it is safe to use it for a custom field > needed for my application. It's not safe. The field is reserved for future use, either by the shadow maintainers or the libc maintainers, and can't reliably be used for anything else (consider the case where two applications decided that it was okay to use the field for their own purposes -- things would get ugly very quickly). Cheers, Nalin _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
