Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] Indeed. I think we can drop this idea altogether. How many people do use passwords on groups anyway? thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:28:53AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] Indeed. I think we can drop this idea altogether. How many people do use passwords on

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:44:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:28:53AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] Indeed. I think we can

[ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] (I'm not sure if we ever had this support), yet the shadow programs attempt to use it. For example we convert the group file to shadow, even though glibc does not contain the calls to get this info. If you look at the