.badpass -- Any significance ?

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <8493 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hg3 at sage.cc.purdue.edu (hg3) writes:
|> I saw quite some users have a .badpass file in their home dir,  w/
|> the permission bits for group/world turned off completely.  What's the
|> use of this file ?

  Note of the variants of Unix with which I have worked use the .badpass file
in any "vendor-supplied" functionality.

  This means either that (a) it is vendor-supplied in the version of Unix
you're using, which is one I have not used :-), or (b) it is a local
customization of some sort.

  Since you did not tell us anything about exactly what type of Unix the
machine on which you've seen these files is running, I can't comment about
possibility (a), and if the answer is (b), then you're going to have to check
with the people who run things at your site, since the net at large isn't
going to help you.

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