[Pkg-shadow-devel] Some variables are missing from the getdef variable

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Nicolas [iso-8859-1] François wrote:

> Hehlo,
> 
> Tomasz, you are also affected by this.
> 
> I've compiled shadow with the debugging information in order to check
> which login.defs variables were used.
> 
> MAIL_FILE is used by userdel and usermod
>
> MD5_CRYPT_ENAB is used by crypt_make_salt, and thus by chpasswd, gpasswd
> and newusers

This is now fixed in cvs tree.

> This method was quite effective to get the list of variables used by each
> utility. This information could be used to indicate in each man page which
> variables are used (IIRC, there is a debian bug about that).
> 
> Tomasz, I only verified the debian utilities, you should probably do the
> same to be sure on your source (some utility are currently built without
> USE_PAM in Debian). I verified that you were affected by at least the two
> variables mentioned above.
> (Maybe also these variables were not intended to be used there.)

OK. Thank you.

kloczek
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