[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#472575: Bug#472575: Bug#472575: /usr/bin/passwd needs patch for better SE Linux support

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Tue Mar 25 17:08:41 UTC 2008


Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois at centraliens.net):

> > password.  With SE Linux Strict policy a user who has UID==0 and the role
> > user_r can do little damage to the system.
> 
> Thanks for the patch. I will commit it for 4.1.1.


Is there any need to discuss this with other distros?

(context for Russel: we are now upstream for shadow so we do our best
to sync our improvements with other vendors who use it...."we"==mostly
Nicolas François and a very little part of /me)

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