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Re: Shadow password issues



Guy Maor writes:
> The shadow package actually comes with a program do to the actual
> conversion and unconversion.  All that's left is for me to write short
> wrapper programs around them to lock, check consistency, convert, and
> move the new ones in.

That's what I did in the postinst. 

> I'll call it shadowconvert or something, and you'll be able to run it
> with arguments `on' or `off'.  I'll make the postinst prompt you to
> run it if you're upgrading from the current non-shadowed version.

Yes, I like that.

> Stephen E. - will you be able to recompile xbase to add shadow support
> to xdm?

Stephen hasn't answered for quite some time. I did upload a shadow-aware
version of his xtrlock package. I remember someone else working on fixing the
outstanding bug reports in X.

Michael

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