Re: [Bug-sysutils] passwd-ng: Strange output from --help

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    The problem is that it cannot find /etc/shadow and/or
   >    /etc/gshadow.  These files are a requisite for things to work
   >    properly.
   > 
   > This is only true if and only if you use shadowed passwords.

   Yes, but that's a default assumption in my code, since if you don't
   use shadow-passwords, you might as well use password-less
   accounts...  And you won't be able to have group-administrators,
   aging-information etc.

The code should detect if shadowed passwords are used or not, and act
accordingly.  It shouldn't assume that shadowed, or non-shadowed
passwords are used.  It is easily checked if shadowed passwords are
used or not, if the encrypted password is `x', then one can assume
that shadowed passwords are used.


And that not using shadowed passwords is the same as using acounts
without a passwords, well, with all due respect, that is total and
utter crap.