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I can login, create users, su to +</I>>><i> other users etc. etc (although only the creation of users actually uses +</I>>><i> the stuff in this package and I didn't know how to provide an encrypted +</I>>><i> password when testing that, so not sure if my tests are even vaguely +</I>>><i> valid!) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Please test before I release it on the rest of Cauldron. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Anyone who has any specific knowledge of this package I would very much +</I>>><i> appreciate a review. +</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/shadow-utils/current/">http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/shadow-utils/current/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I've not looked at or used tcb for a few years; very cool that it's in +</I>><i> upstream shadow-utils now though! If you have specific questions or +</I>><i> concerns, I'd suggest getting in touch with Solar Designer (the author +</I>><i> of the tcb suite). From what I know, not much in it has changed in the +</I>><i> last few years, so provided that upstream's implementation is correct, +</I>><i> there should be no problem. If you can authenticate against it +</I>><i> properly, which it sounds like, then I think you're ok (although a +</I>><i> manual test of user creation and user removal, as well as password +</I>><i> changes, would likely be viable tests to run as well). +</I> + +The only issue is that the password changes come from the passwd package +(the passwd implementation from shadow-utils is basically dropped (same +as on fedora)), so I'm not sure how valid some of the tests are!! But by +the same token, if these are separate anyway then there is less in the +way of new stuff that needs testing anyway, so that's good :D + +When I last looked at updating shadow (a good few months ago) the tcb +implementation upstream looked a bit different to the one from your +patch but it did use some of the same file names (tcbfuncs.c) and +function names. + +All fun and games :) + +Col + + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="017422.html">[Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Please Test: shadow-utils package (TCB auth related) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="017292.html">[Mageia-dev] [usrmove] dahdi vs zapata: is zapata dead now? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#17291">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#17291">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#17291">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#17291">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |