[Pkg-shadow-devel] New experimental packages to be tested

[Christian Perrier]

> All these utilities now use PAM. However we do no yet ship the
> /etc/pam.d files shipped by Tomasz in upstream. I first need to figure
> out what these PAM modules are about.


Well, undoubtfully, these PAM modules are now needed..:-)

root at mykerinos:~/src/debian/shadow# LC_ALL=C chage tintin
Password:       <-- root password here
Changing the aging information for tintin
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default

        Minimum Password Age [0]:
        Maximum Password Age [99999]:
        Last Password Change (YYYY-MM-DD) [2005-07-23]:
        Password Expiration Warning [7]:
        Password Inactive [-1]:
        Account Expiration Date (YYYY-MM-DD) [1969-12-31]:
Password:      <--root password here
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:


root at mykerinos:~/src/debian/shadow# LC_ALL=C useradd haddock
Password:
useradd: PAM authentication failed


and so on...