You (Michael Meskes) wrote: > I'm currently trying to finish the work on the shadow package. However, > there are some decision to make: > > 1) Should we change the login package to be shadow aware? Or should shadow > come with its own login (that works with and without shadow password files)? > Or should we use the shadow login as standard?
Well the login we're using now is from util-linux, and unless you can get the shadow patches into the upstream source (which wouldn't be a bad idea) it would be easier to use the login from the shadow package I think. You can use the Replaces: header for that. The same goes for newgrp. In fact I think you can drop newgrp since it isn't needed under Linux, we have BSD groups support. > > 3) We definitely have to use the shadow passwd source to be able to handle > the shadowed passwd file, while the old one is needed for the standard > passwd file. But the passwd package also contains a conffile (/etc/shells) > and two more binaries that are not affected by shadow (vipw/vigr). Should I > add these to the shadow package, too? vipw and vigr should be rewritten so that they can edit the passwd+shadow. I've got a vipw that merges passwd+shadow, lets you edit the merge, and then splits it again. It also adheres to the shadow password locking convention. If you want it drop me a line. Also, you'll have to replace adduser ofcourse. This will be easy; shadow comes with a command line utility "useradd" that just needs a simple perl wrapper around it that emulates adduser functionality. Bruce (I think it was Bruce) mentioned that we want shadow passwords as a standard feature for 1.2; so I think just making sure all conflicting packages get upgraded to work with shadow and letting shadow conflict with the older packages would do the job. Which reminds me: RedHat is going to integrate PAM into their next release. Perhaps now is a good time to look if we should consider using that too, or if we think that shadow is good enough for now. Mike. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
