Re: Password aging in passwd, differing chfn implementations
- To: Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>
- Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>, lsb-discuss@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Password aging in passwd, differing chfn implementations
- From: Matt Taggart <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:04:47 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20020304200447.A8AAC37CF5@carmen.fc.hp.com>
- In-reply-to: Message from Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org> of "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:53:53 +1100." <15482.63681.645245.233598@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
- References: <20020225203518.K28496@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <15482.59611.655405.882459@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20020225205818.L28496@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <15482.63681.645245.233598@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Christopher Yeoh writes...
> At 2002/2/25 20:58-0500 Matt Wilson writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:46:03PM +1100, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> > >
> > > Thats correct. At the 2001 NY LSB Workgroup meeting it was agreed that
> > > where there was a conflict between a command implemented by util-linux
> > > and shadow-utils the shadow-utils version would be used.
> >
> > I must have been in the packaging group meeting at the time. Was
> > there any rationale given for this decision?
>
> We did spend some time discussing it and the decision has been
> mentioned on this and/or lsb-spec list a few times since then, but to
> be honest I don't remember the details. Maybe someone else who was
> there can remember better than me.
If the rationale for this is found, it could be recorded in the soon to be
created rationale document, not just the mailing list.
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Matt Taggart Linux Development Lab
taggart@fc.hp.com HP Linux Systems Operation
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