[Pkg-shadow-devel] gpasswd, newgrp and gshadow man pages

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Nicolas [iso-8859-1] Fran=E7ois wrote:
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> Tomasz, can you have a look at the attached patch.
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> It explains why editing /etc/group (without gshadow) doesn't permit to us=
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> newgrp (and should permit to close the above bugs).
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> This time, it is a diff against your CVS.

Patch looks good.

I think this kind information in man pages will be useable olny in limited=
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time. Why ? because after my last time spend working on shadow I think now=
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it will be good move shadow to form with by default shadow password=20
handling enabled and also it will be good push more stronger some=20
modyfications for glibc (mainly NSS related) and PAM for make shadow group=
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support avalaible on this level.

I upcomming 4.0.8 and probably in next version or more I want finish so=20
many cleanups as possible for make shadow transformation easier in this=20
direction and also prepare basic infrastrucrure in shadow for modularise=20
files/ldap/nis/kerberos/<other_auth_method> backends support.
After finish this process indicationion in documentation some detals about=
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SHADOWPWD, SHADOWGRP will be of course unuseable.
Also ff course this will take more than few months so now .. patch like=20
yours is acceptable/correct.

I think shadow support is kind of "standard platform" so #ifdefing shadow=
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handling vode can be removed in next few months (even in embedded=20
systems). As consequence will be removed all SHADOWPWD conditions.

Comments ?

kloczek
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