Bug#182605: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#182605: Is #182605 really belonging to passwd?

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:34:03PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> While looking at bug #182606 and then to passwd sources, I finally
> found that the prompting for a new password is not done by passwd
> itself but by the pam_unix PAM module....
> 
> As a consequence, my first reaction is saying that this bug does not
> pertain to passws. Am I right?

Yes, unless there's a bug in passwd inside "#ifndef USE_PAM"
code too. ;)

-- 
WBR,
xrgtn