Bug#316219: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#316219: passwd - please enable shadow by default on firsttime installation

[Martin Quinson]

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:19:24PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Bastian Blank (waldi@debian.org):
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:14:25PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> >=20
> > >                                         We can obviously do this,
> > > however, I think that we should move the conditional config based on
> > > the debconf question to the top of the config script.
> >=20
> > You have to ask it if not flagged as seen in this case. Also this
> > violates "debconf is no registry".
>=20
>=20
> Well, I'm not sure that the "debconf is not a registry" karma actually
> really means something. I have to think about this. Anyway, we will
> fix this after the 4.0.3-36 release.

The same way we removed the "enable md5" question a while ago (actually,
Karl did it before we arrived), shouldn't we remove this question as well?

Is there any situation where shadow is a bad thing? I mean, does someone
somewhere on the earth really need this feature?

Bye, Mt.

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