Shadow update
Bruce Dubbs
bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 16:21:37 MDT 2008
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I made many, many changes to the Shadow package during the
> update to the most recent version. I like the changes, but
> I encourage everyone that can to render the book and look
> at it. If you can't render it, it will be available tomorrow
> in the SVN book.
>
> If there are problems or questions, let's discuss here first,
> and if we have to, we'll open a new Trac ticket. The old
> ticket for the Shadow update was filled with many, many
> entries and there was no consensus reached on what to do with
> the useradd issue.
>
> I did what I thought was best. Please review.
I looked at the page and it reads well. I haven't installed it yet.
In reviewing ticket 2144, I have a couple of questions.
The ticket says that the man pages are regenerated depending on configuration.
Shouldn't the man page conversions be done after configure and make?
Should there be a mention of the possible use of SHA password encryption?
-- Bruce
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