Re: libshadow

[utsl@quic.net]

After hacking on shadow off and on for a few months, I decided to give up, and
just use the native passwd tools. I believe the Hurd has it's own tools for
this, so there's precedent.

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:18:13PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On closer investigation, the reason none of the group stuff worked with my
> patch to libshadow was that groupio.c uses the same calls as for updating
> passwords, with the result that it was attempting to write group files in
> the same way as passwd files (whereas /etc/group is the same format on
> NetBSD as elsewhere). For the moment I've worked around this by shifting
> all my changes to a different commonio.c (commoniobsd.c) and adding
> unmodified versions of the three modified functions with different names
> then hacked groupio.c to use those. No hint is passed regarding whether
> the file is a password or a group file, so can anyone suggest a better
> mechanism or should I just stick with this for now? (with this fix, the
> login and passwd packages seem to basically work so can probably be taken
> off the TODO list. We still lose the ability to alter the NetBSD specific
> stuff, but that can probably be added in later)
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
> 
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