[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1377 - in upstream/trunk: . man

[nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org]

Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2007-11-17 17:31:54 +0000 (Sat, 17 Nov 2007)
New Revision: 1377

Modified:
   upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
   upstream/trunk/man/chpasswd.8.xml
Log:
Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to update the passwords. This fixes
http://bugs.debian.org/396726.  Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.


Modified: upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2007-11-17 17:24:23 UTC (rev 1376)
+++ upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2007-11-17 17:31:54 UTC (rev 1377)
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
 
+	* man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to
+	update the passwords. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/396726.
+	Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
+
+2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+
 	* NEWS, src/su.c: Avoid terminating the PAM library in the forked
 	child.  This is done later in the parent after closing the PAM
 	session. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/412061.

Modified: upstream/trunk/man/chpasswd.8.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/chpasswd.8.xml	2007-11-17 17:24:23 UTC (rev 1376)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/chpasswd.8.xml	2007-11-17 17:31:54 UTC (rev 1377)
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
       Remember to set permissions or umask to prevent readability of
       unencrypted files by other users.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      <command>chpasswd</command> does not use PAM to update the passwords.
+      Thus, It only updates the passwords from the
+      <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>
+      databases, and does not support the various checks provided by PAM
+      modules.
+    </para>
   </refsect1>
 
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