[Mageia-dev] [usrmove] Please Test: shadow-utils package (TCB auth related)

Thu Jul 12 16:42:45 CEST 2012

Hi
+
+I know pretty much nothing about TCB authentication stuff that was
+initially spearheaded by Vincent Danen many years ago in the Mandriva
+days (taking work from his Anvix project IIRC)
+
+Our shadow-utils package (basically no different to Mandriva's) had one
+large patch relating to TCB that I've now dropped as upstream
+shadow-utils now has it's own TCB support.
+
+It required a couple build fixes (nothing too crazy) and things seem to
+work still for me.
+
+I've also dropped a few binaries we do not use or are provided by other
+packages (sometimes in different paths e.g. /bin/login vs. /usr/bin/login).
+
+Everything still seems to work for me. I can login, create users, su to
+other users etc. etc (although only the creation of users actually uses
+the stuff in this package and I didn't know how to provide an encrypted
+password when testing that, so not sure if my tests are even vaguely valid!)
+
+Please test before I release it on the rest of Cauldron.
+
+Anyone who has any specific knowledge of this package I would very much
+appreciate a review.
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/shadow-utils/current/
+
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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