[Mageia-dev] shadow-utils

Tue Feb 28 12:03:58 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+Someone needs to update this package - any volunteers? It's quite an
+important package so please be careful if you are a novice :D
+
+The latest version (4.1.5) contains a fix for a CVE so I think we should
+update it before mga2... only problem is that that the tcb related
+patches need rediffed. I didn't look closely, but I suspect this will
+take a bit of time and a at least a bit of understanding of the code.
+Perhaps it won't be too hard tho'.
+
+I also think we should remove /usr/bin/login from that package (fedora
+already do this). We already have /bin/login from util-linux (and also
+had this in mga1) so providing two different login implementations from
+two different packages but in different paths just seems like a recipe
+for problems to me (and certainly will cause problems when we do the
+/usr consolidation for mga3).
+
+Any takers? If not, I'll have a look in a week or so.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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