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

[David Weinehall]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:18:46PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    but I personally see no big rush to implement support for
>    shadow-less systems.
> 
> In the old days, it was usually the other way around...  Took less
> time to implement for shadow-less system, then for systems with
> shadowed passwords. :-)

Yup.  But nowadays, most (all?) sane platforms uses shadowpasswords for
the passwd-file.  Almost none uses gshadow, but that's one of the things
I'm hoping will change =)

>    Sure, I could fix this myself, but I prefer to work on things that
>    are useful...
> 
> Could you atleast add it to some TODO file or somesuch?  So that it is
> recorded for the future.

Done.


Regards: David Weinehall
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