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

[David Weinehall]

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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