Bug#351631: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#351631: passwd: Please compile with SE Linux support

[Christian Perrier]

> Currently useradd/userdel make a SE Linux system unusable and unbootable, the 
> change I request fixes that.  The base functionality of /bin/passwd works, 
> but it doesn't perform checks for SE Linux permission, so root:user_r:user_t 
> can change passwords for any user.  This is also fixed by the change I 
> request.
> 
> 
> PS  You will also need to make it build-depend on libselinux1-dev.


Yep. That's the last point to sort as this package is not available on
the Hurd as Nicolas François pointed on IRC (#shadow on freenode).

I'm very seriously considering the suggested change and I'm now in the
"only Manoj can make my mind change" mood...:-)

We are about to upload a new release of shadow as soon as the current
one will have reached testing, which should happen, from memory, in 1
day or two. I expect this new release to be built with libselinux1.