[Pkg-shadow-devel] patch for login - 3

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Tue, 31 May 2005, Nicolas [iso-8859-1] Fran=E7ois wrote:

> Hello Tomasz,
>=20
> Here are two other patches. The second one is a little bit related to the
> first one, but is less important.
>=20
>=20
> 008_login_opt-f_with_username_after--
> makes login's -f option also able to use the username after -- if none
> was passed as it's optarg.
> It is IMHO important for programs calling login and that don't want the
> user to provide options to login.
>=20
> More info at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D53702
>=20
>=20
>=20
> 008_login_stop_checking_args_after--
> getty calls login with:
>     (void) execl(options.login, options.login, "--", logname, (char *) 0)=
;
> If an user enters "-username", she gets the usage, but she should get,
> IMHO, the same display as in case of a non-existent username.
>=20
> More info at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D66368

I'm talk on IRC (on #shadow channel in irc.freenode.org) about Debian=20
patches with Christian and after short talk few days ago I'm say that this =
two=20
008_* patches are probably for commit :)
I'll little busy to end of week .. do you check is it two patches can be =
=20
cleanly aplayed to current CVS tree ?

kloczek
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