Re: Intent to fix base-passwd
Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> while testing the base packages I hit the critical bugs surrounding
> the update-passwd binary contained in base-passwd.
Uh, which critical bugs? --sanity-check now works as expected, is run
by default and update-passwd is no longer run automatically, it has to
be run by the user if it is to be used.
> 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
No, please don't do this. Even if you do fix all the known bugs, it's
_way_ too late in the game to put an automatic call of update-passwd
back in the postinst.
--
James
~Yawn And Walk North~
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