Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:36:21AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > chpasswd is not a critical utility, for sure, when compared to other > > programs in shadow, but we certainly cannot release with it being > > broken as it is in 4.0.3-30.5 > > chpasswd is used by passwd.config which is used by base-config, so it's > as critical as it gets.
Damn, you're of course right (who would doubt?). 4.0.3-30.6 has been uploaded and seems to fix the chpasswd issue Of course, given these facts, forget about any hinting for shadow until it has been proven that 4.0.3-30.6 does not break base-config and thus the installer. Being virtually murdered by joeyh is certainly the last thing I want to happen to me..:)