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

[Alexander Gattin]

owner 317012 Alexander Gattin <arg@online.com.ua>
thanks

Hi!

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:55:53AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Marc Haber explained on IRC that the "-O" option adds a problem to
> backport (on the other hand, this -O option actually exists since a
> long time).
> 
> As, in the same time, changing chage to have a special errorlevel does
> not harm a lot

And will cause the same problems for "backport",...
Or I don't understabd something here?

> and is judged by Marc as more pratical to use for hime,
> I hereby decide that we will go that way.

OK, I'm a bit sick and was offline whole day -- but
I'll add chage patch and modify "-O" desc. a bit to
more close with upstream.

> -this patch has to be "ported" for upstream shadow

We talked with Tomasz and he did not seem to implement
dedicated exitcode for the matter, but I think he will
accept an already-made patch.

> -we upload a fixed version as soon as possible to give Marc a possible
>  solution for his own bug report

Will try to do this quick.
-- 
WBR,
xrgtn