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

[Russell Coker]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 08:41, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> 
wrote:
> None specific. Gentoo uses "our" shadow but I have no idea whether
> they have SE Linux support.

They do.  Joshua is a good person to talk to about this.

> I suspect that Fedora will probably resync at some moment with shadow
> upstream (if not already done) and maybe Redhat will as well.

Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.  But currently Red Hat have better 
SE Linux support and I'm trying to get Debian to catch up.  So this patch and 
some others that I will likely send in the near future will make things 
easier for a Red Hat merge.

> However, I'm mostly ignorant when it comes at what/who/whatever about
> SELinux....so just wanted to play the Candide role here
> (not sure if you guys use that expression in English.....Candide being
> a character from Voltaire).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide