Bug#394182: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#394182: cppw: copies to /etc/passwd even with -s switch

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Sat Oct 21 06:15:54 UTC 2006


(not CC'ind Chad as he subscribed to the ML)

> > I've looked at the code (in debian/patches/401_cppw_src.dpatch), and
> > noticed it is checking for the obsolete symbol SHADOWPWD before checking
> > for the -s switch.  Since that symbol doesn't exist (The Changelog says it
> > has been removed), it goes ahead and copies the file over /etc/passwd
> > instead of /etc/shadow.


My first analysis would be just removing the #ifdef/#endif for
SHADOWPWD (and likely SHADOWGRP later).

Nicolas, Chad, agreed?


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