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

[Jeff Bailey]

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?

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