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Re: [Bug-sysutils] Another TODO list item question
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David Weinehall |
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Re: [Bug-sysutils] Another TODO list item question |
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Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:30:55 +0200 |
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:01:48PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
> David Weinehall 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.
> >
> >My suggestion is that we ignore non-shadow systems for now. While it
> >might cause problems in the long run (have to post-engineer isn't all
> >that fun), I find it a better alternative than pushing a first working
> >release further into the future. Let's get sysutils production ready,
> >and deal with broken systems later. There are enough things to be fixed
> >anyway.
> >
> >It is in the TODO-list though =)
> >
> >
> >Regards: David
> >
> David,
>
> Hey, been missing you! :-) Is there any chance of someone updating the
> TODO list by some kind of priority like "For Release" and "Wishlist" or
> something like that?
Nah. Basically, if you want to do something on the TODO-list, do it.
None of the things listed there are useless (I hope), so if you do it,
it's one less things left to do later.
Regards: David
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