Re: Shadow problems

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Michael Meskes) wrote:
> > M> 1) Should we change the login package to be shadow aware? Or should shadow
> I talked to Guy (login maintainer) about this problem a while ago and treid
> to persuade him to use ths shadow login as standard (it works without the
> shadow file, too). But he prefers to keep the old one. 

If we're going to change over to shadow totally, we'll need the shadowized
login. The util-linux one is very simplistic and it would be stupid IMHO
to rewrite it when a better one is readily available (and when you have to
keep patching it up every time a new upstream util-linux is released).

Mike.
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