After hacking on shadow off and on for a few months, I decided to give up, and just use the native passwd tools. I believe the Hurd has it's own tools for this, so there's precedent.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:18:13PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On closer investigation, the reason none of the group stuff worked with my > patch to libshadow was that groupio.c uses the same calls as for updating > passwords, with the result that it was attempting to write group files in > the same way as passwd files (whereas /etc/group is the same format on > NetBSD as elsewhere). For the moment I've worked around this by shifting > all my changes to a different commonio.c (commoniobsd.c) and adding > unmodified versions of the three modified functions with different names > then hacked groupio.c to use those. No hint is passed regarding whether > the file is a password or a group file, so can anyone suggest a better > mechanism or should I just stick with this for now? (with this fix, the > login and passwd packages seem to basically work so can probably be taken > off the TODO list. We still lose the ability to alter the NetBSD specific > stuff, but that can probably be added in later) > > -- > Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
