[LRUG] [OT?] Security advice, Prey and catching burglars... 'The Ruby Way'

[Damon Allen Davison]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Damon Allen Davison <damon at allolex.net>wrote:

> If you use the Unix command passwd, it will change the PAM authentication
> password, but if you use dscl to change it, i.e. directory services, then
> it will set the password for the user in Open Directory. The Unix command
> passwd has been deprecated in OS 10.7 (Lion), so you *have* to use the dscl
> method at the command line. I think the default authentication service
> order is network login, local login via directory services, Unix/PAM login.
>

The dscl command is, incidentally,

$ dscl localhost -passwd /Search/Users/USERNAME

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