Bug#801707: O: shadow -- system login tools
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:54:13 +0200 Christian Perrier
<bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I intend to orphan the shadow package.
>
> It is indeed time for me to accept that I won't be useful anymor efor
> this package and, instead of blocking its adoption by someone else, I
> should officially orphan it.
>
> I'd be happy to help people who intend to maintain it, at least by
> sponsoring uploads for those who aren't in the Debian Devleopers
> keyring with upload rights.
>
> The package description is:
> These tools are required to be able to login and use your system. The
> login program invokes your user shell and enables command execution. The
> newgrp program is used to change your effective group ID (useful for
> workgroup type situations). The su program allows changing your effective
> user ID (useful being able to execute commands as another user).
Shouldn't the login, su and login executables be built from util-linux
instead of the shadow one?
All the other distributions are using the implementation from util-linux
instead of the one from shadow.
There are still other executables that should be built from shadow as
they don't have an equivalent or are behaving differently
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