[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317012: Bug#316089: chage fails if plain passwd in use

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:27:25AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:55:53AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Marc Haber explained on IRC that the "-O" option adds a problem to
> > backport (on the other hand, this -O option actually exists since a
> > long time).
> > 
> > As, in the same time, changing chage to have a special errorlevel does
> > not harm a lot
> 
> And will cause the same problems for "backport",...
> Or I don't understabd something here?

A backported adduser used with an unpatched shadow will fail on adding
a system user on a system without shadow passwords like it does today.
So, there is no loss of functionality on backports, which I can live
with.

Greetings
Marc

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