Re: [Bug-sysutils] Another TODO list item question

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:05:17AM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On 24/03/07, David Weinehall <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:17:39PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I was looking at chusr/chgrp dealing with systems that don't have shadow
> >> passwords.  But looking through several of the sources it looks like all
> >> of the programs assume shadow passwords.
> >>
> >> Am I wrong in thinking that?
> >
> >No, you're correct.  sysutils currently doesn't cope correctly with the
> >lack of shadow passwords.  When I started out I decided that it's insane
> >not to use them.  However, it seems that for compatibility with some
> >insane old systems we might have to support them anyway.
> 
> Ah, interesting.  I'd always assumed that shadow files were at least
> defined in posix, but the susv3 spec doesn't contain the word 'shadow'
> at all.  shadow(5) doesn't have a conformance section.
> 
> Any idea where the shadow file is formally defined?

Nope.  I don't believe there is a formal standard.


Regards: David
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