[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#396726: Final statement about this bug report

[Christian Perrier]

severity 396726 wishlist
tags 396726 - wontfix
thanks

After deeper analysis, it appears that chpasswd does *not* use PAM for
passwd changes but only for the calling user authentication and
it cannot use PAM without breaking some of its options.

As a consequence, we conclude it is impossible for us (or shadow
upstream) to have chpasswd update opasswd (which *has* to be done
through pam_unix).

We propose documenting this issue in chpasswd manpage as a way to warn
admins about this.

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