Intent to fix base-passwd

[Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hi,

while testing the base packages I hit the critical bugs surrounding the
update-passwd binary contained in base-passwd. 

I want to introduce a -n flag to update-passwd which prints out the
proposed changes to /etc/passwd and /etc/group without actually
executing them (debug mode). I try to take care of the NIS and shadow
stuff. The postinst should be changed to something along the lines:

update-passwd --sanity-check
update-passwd -n
Ask user if changes are ok.
If yes
update-passwd 

Any objections and/or other proposals how to fix the critical bugs ?

Greetings,


				Christian
  
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Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de

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