Bug#317012: (forw) Bug#317012: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Processed: Bug#316089: chage fails if plain passwd in use

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:39:30PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
>    you just should check whether /etc/shadow exists,
>    and if no, chage will surely fail, because pwd ageing
>    information is contained in shadow only, not in 
> passwd.
> 
>    This also means that you should not worry about pwd
>    ageing when adding a user on non-shadow system ;)

Lookg for /etc/shadow seems like a bad hack. Isn't there some more
elegant way to find out whether shadow is in place or not?

Greetings
Marc

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