[Pkg-shadow-devel] faster faillog reset

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Wed Mar 5 00:22:33 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:21:17PM +0100, pvrabec at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> could you apply this patch please. It will make 
> faillog -m 32767 -r
> faster on 64-bit systems.

committed.

This changes the behavior of faillog -r, but I cannot see any use case
where it really matters.

for example
	faillog -r
	useradd -l testuser

could result in the testuser having a non null failures counter.
But the user is warned by the faillog manpage of the behavior of
useradd -l.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral



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