Bug#78961: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#78961: passwd treats expiry=0 as expired while chage doesn't

[Alexander Gattin]

Hello!

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:56:05PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> So I now think the best way is to fix chage so that it does not display
> Account Expires:        Never
> but
> Account Expires:        Jan 01, 1970

Yes, this relly annoys. Saw it today again...

> (Other changes not related to this field will be needed, e.g. lastday == 0
> means that the password must be changed on next login).

I can say nothing about this yet, because I didn't
had a look at there.

> Regarding PAM, I think a big part of 007_modules_pam_unix should be
> dropped.

Seems that you are right.

> I would also like to have Sam Hartman (Debian PAM maintainer) opinion.

I too. And also regarding pam_wheel's "transitive trust"
patch (bug #295299).

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