Re: [PROPOSAL]drop LSB.usersgroups/commands/passwd/T.passwd 2
Andrew,
I know of sites that still use the group password feature. Even if we
offer a waiver here and we assent to the demise of this "feature", for a
very small minority this is still a needed behaviour. As such I recommend
that we retain this. We should however flag all features that are
earmarked for obsolesnce. A suitable notation should be made in the spec.
- John T.
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Josey wrote:
> {bits deleted}
>
> On Jul 29, 10:29pm in "[PROPOSAL]drop LSB.u", Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> > group passwords offer near zero extra security and are a
> > obsolete concept (if you can add a user to more then one
>
> Agreed
> >
> > There was some discussion about that, and i do not remember
> > voices in favour of the group passwd concept.
> >
> > I propose to remove the notion of "passwd -g" in the
> > (next) spec and drop the test silently.
> I would be against dropping the test silently. Some further
> actions would be needed before we could get to that stage.
>
> Since the test follows the specification correctly it should initially
> remain and this issue be addressed through the certification processes
> and/or by raising a defect report against the specification.
> If the owners of the specification state that there are concerns
> with the specification in this area and propose a change for
> a future revision, then we could downgrade
> the result to a warning, or grant a waiver for this failure.
>
> regards
> Andrew
>
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