Bug#5168: adduser doesn't update /etc/shadow

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

You (Marek Michalkiewicz) wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 2.11
> 
> adduser doesn't update /etc/shadow (if present).  When using shadow

If you let adduser muck around with /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow manually
on a shadow-ized system you might run into locking problems... That's
really ugly. Password locking is different between shadow and non-shadow
systems.

adduser should be fixed to call useradd as soon as shadow is "standard".
It would make it al lot smaller too.

Mike.
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