[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#857803: Bug#857803: shadow: Make the sp_lstchg shadow field reproducible.

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > looks ok to me, although, would it be better to fall back to time(NULL)
> > if the env variable is invalid?
> 
> In my experience it is far superior to explicitly error out in this
> situation.

My concern is unprivileged users causing unexpected failure in a more
privileged script or program by setting an invalid environment variable.