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

Tue Jul 17 16:07:02 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 14/07/12 13:15 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 12/07/12 15:42 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 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/
+> 
+> Has anyone checked this other than me yet?
+> 
+> I'd like to push this but would like at least some other confirmation
+> that it doesn't break things :D
+
+
+OK, I asked twice, now you're all getting it!
+
+Pushed to cauldron proper now :p
+
+(I'm sure it'll be fine :D)
+
+Col
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