$Id: ANNOUNCE,v 1.4 2000/08/26 18:27:09 marekm Exp $

[ This is the original comp.os.linux.announce posting (only the
  author's name and e-mail address has been updated), kept here
  for historical reasons.  Many things have changed since then.
  Linux distributions are using it, and the mailing list address
  has been changed.  See README.linux (in the same directory)
  for more up to date information.  --marekm ]

This is a new beta release of the Shadow Password Suite for Linux.
Many bugs have been reported (and fixed!), and the package is now
under a BSD-style copyright.  It was written by Julianne F. Haugh
<jfh@austin.ibm.com>, and the Linux port is now maintained by me.

Again, this is beta software which may still have some bugs, please
treat it as such.  Please don't install it if you don't know what
you're doing.  Please test it as much as you can, and report any
bugs - if you report them, they will be fixed!  If all goes well,
Shadow should be stable enough for general use within a few months.
Once it is stable, Linux distributions can start using it - there
are no copyright problems anymore.

Thanks to Greg Gallagher <ggallag@orion.it.luc.edu> there is now
a developers mailing list, shadow-list@neptune.cin.net.  Send the
command "subscribe" to shadow-list-request@neptune.cin.net (NOT to
the mailing list itself!) to subscribe if you are interested.


LSM entry follows:

Begin3
Title:		Shadow Password Suite
Version:	3.3.3-951218
Entered-date:	18DEC95
Description:	
Keywords:	login passwd security shadow
Author:		jfh@austin.ibm.com (Julie Haugh)
Maintained-by:	marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Primary-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Admin
		220K shadow-951218.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl /pub/linux/shadow
Original-site:	ftp.uu.net ?
Platforms:	
Copying-policy:	BSD-like
End

Marek Michalkiewicz
marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl