'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 Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
