[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#439769: Bug#1708: `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by `adduser'

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix upstream

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:40:25AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> This problem is not only a PAM problem.  Even after patching PAM to not
> block SIGINT, the signal is still being ignored because passwd/su/login each
> also block the signal on their own.
> 
> So fixing this would require changes to both pam and shadow.

I've briefly looked at the code in shadow that's responsible for
this. It seems like changing this is going to be a major
undertaking. Certainly not something we should do downstream-only.

We'll be stuck in the same situation since 1995, but I'll at least
document this as wontfix for the forseeable future.

Chris