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

[Christian Perrier]

> 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?


The template mentions that shadow passwords can be nasty in NIS
environments.