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

[Barry deFreese]

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?

Thanks for the reply!

Barry