[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Pkg-shadow-commits] r298 - trunk/debian/patches

[Nicolas François]

Hi!

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:11:19AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> The part between dashes asks the user to delete groups in /etc/groups w=
hen
> they are not present in /etc/gshadow.
> 
> This was not asked by the submitter. I added this to have the same
> behavior as when a group is in /etc/gshadow but not in /etc/group.
> (grpck currently asks the user if he wants to remove the non-consitent
> entry from gshadow).
> 
> So, do you think this makes sense, or do you want me to remove this par=
t?
> (or just warn)

After discussing with Martin, it could make more sense to propose to add
the entry to gshadow.
(It is the behavior that could be expected by an admin who would modify
/etc/group but did not think about modifying gshadow.

We should also check what pwck does when passwd and shadow are not
consistent.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral