'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 -- 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/
