Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Adding a group password to this process seems pretty exotic to me and I suspect its use would be quite rare, hence the omission by default.
The only real practical use for group passwords is pretty much what that paragraph Greg showed states. It allows people that don't have the root password to add and remove people from groups. In effect this means you could add people to the svnblfs group without having to ask a "root" access person to this for you.
I've not actually met any system admin who employs group passwords (or the shadow'ed version of them for added security like we all use shadow'ed user passwords).
As for a recommendation on how to go about this one. Follow the developer's lead. If they are now disabled by default it's just as well. I wager to guess nobody ever used them, anyways. Update the LFS book and remove said paragraph. Maybe add a small note saying the default behavior has changed, just to be on the safe side and let people know about an age old change in defaults.
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