Re: Why does Debian use a nonstandard chsh?

[Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu>]

Hi...

How do you mean 'nonstandard'? chsh comes from the shadow passwd suite. If
you have that installed, you're not using the other one. How is this a
problem? The passwd file is in a different form than in most dists (which
don't use the shadow passwd suite). Any command that modifies any part of
the passwd database ought to be grouped together, so it can be modified
together and maintained together. 

Using the one from metalab will break up the set, and so introduce entropy 
into a place it very definitely doesn't belong.

Take a look at the shadow passwd suite source for other bins that are a part
of the login/passwd/group database manipulation set, so you can see how it
operates.

-Jim