3 shadow-4.1.2.1 -> shadow-4.1.3 UNRELEASED
7 * Implement the -r, --system option.
9 * Allow adding LDAP users (or any user not present in the local passwd
12 shadow-4.1.2 -> shadow-4.1.2.1 26-06-2008
15 - Fix an "audit log injection" vulnerability in login.
16 This vulnerability makes it easier for attackers to hide activities by
17 modifying portions of log events, e.g. by appending an addr= statement
20 shadow-4.1.1 -> shadow-4.1.2 25-05-2008
23 - generation of SHA encrypted passwords (chpasswd, gpasswd, newusers,
24 chgpasswd; and also passwd if configured without PAM support).
25 The number of rounds and number of salt bytes was fixed to their lower
26 allowed values (resp. configurable and 8), hence voiding some of the
27 advantages of this encryption method. Dictionary attacks with
28 precomputed tables were easier than expected, but still harder than with
29 the MD5 (or DES) methods.
33 * Distribute the chfn, chsh, and userdel PAM configuration file.
34 * Fix the detection of the audit, pam, and selinux library and header
35 file; and fail if the feature is requested but not present on the
37 * Fix build failure when configured with audit support.
39 * Allow non-US-ASCII characters in the GECOS fields ("name", "room
40 number", and "other info" fields).
42 * Do not fail if a shell option, specified after --, has more than 2
45 * If the SULOG_FILE does not exist when an su session is logged, make
46 sure the file is created with group root, instead of using the group
49 * Resume properly after ^Z.
52 - Document the -r, --system option in the useradd, groupadd, and newusers
54 - Document the -c, --crypt-method and -s, --sha-rounds options in the
56 - Document the -k, --skel option in the useradd manpage.
57 - Tag the section which require --enable-shadowgrp or --with-sha-crypt
60 shadow-4.1.0 -> shadow-4.1.1 02-04-2008
64 * Do not seed the random number generator each time, and use the time in
65 microseconds to avoid having the same salt for different passwords
66 generated in the same second.
68 * Do not install the shadow library per default.
70 * Do not translate the messages sent to syslog. This avoids logging
71 PAM error messages in the users's locale.
73 * Set GID_MIN to the same value as UID_MIN by default (1000).
74 * Added variables SYS_UID_MIN (100), SYS_UID_MAX (999), SYS_GID_MIN (100),
75 SYS_GID_MAX (999) for system accounts.
77 * /etc/default/useradd now defines HOME as /home to match FHS.
79 * Fix bug which forbid to set the aging information of an account with a
80 passwd entry, but no shadow entry.
82 * faillog -r now only reset the entries of existing users. This makes
85 * Fix failures when the gshadow file is not present.
86 * When a password is moved to the gshadow file, use "x" instead of "x"
87 to indicate that the password is shadowed (consistency with grpconv).
88 * Make sure the group and gshadow files are unlocked on exit.
90 * New option -p/--password to specify an encrypted password.
91 * New option -r, --system for system accounts.
93 * Do not fail if the group does not exist in the gshadow file.
94 * Do not rewrite the group or gshadow file in case of error.
95 * Make sure the group and gshadow files are unlocked on exit.
96 * Fail if the system is not configured to support split groups and
97 different group entries have the name of the group to be deleted.
99 * Fix buffer overflow when adding an user to a group. Thanks to Peter Vrabec.
101 * New option -p/--password to specify an encrypted password.
102 * Make sure the group and gshadow files are unlocked on exit.
103 * When the GID of a group is changed, update also the GID of the passwd
104 entries of the users whose primary group is the group being modified.
106 * Fix logging of changes to syslog when a group file is provided,
107 without a gshadow file.
109 * Accept users specified as a numerical UID, or ranges of users (-user,
112 * Use PATH and SUPATH to set the PATH environment variable, even when
113 support for PAM is enabled.
114 * If started as init, start a new session.
116 * Fix segfault when an user returns to an unknown GID (either the user
117 was deleted during the user's newgrp session or the user's passwd
118 entry referenced an invalid group). Add a syslog warning in that case.
119 * Use the correct AUDIT_CHGRP_ID event instead of AUDIT_USER_START, when
120 changing the user space group ID with newgrp or sg.
122 * The new users are no more added to the list of members of their groups
123 because the membership is already set by their primary group.
124 * Added support for gshadow.
125 * Avoid using the same salt for different passwords.
126 * Fix support for the NONE crypt method.
127 * newusers will behave more like useradd regarding the choice of UID or
128 GID or regarding the validity of user and group names.
129 * New option -r, --system for system accounts.
130 * Make sure the passwd, group, shadow, and gshadow files are unlocked on
133 * Make sure that no more than one username argument was provided.
134 * Make SE Linux tests more strict, when the real UID is 0 SE Linux
135 checks will be performed.
137 * Fix logging of changes to syslog when a passwd file is provided,
138 without a shadow file.
140 * su's arguments are now reordered. If needed, use -- to separate su's
141 options from the shell's options.
143 * If started as init, start a new session.
145 * New option -l to avoid adding the user to the lastlog and faillog databases.
146 * Fix the handling of the --defaults option (it required an argument,
147 but should behave as -D)
148 * Document the --defaults option, which was already described in the
149 useradd's Usage information.
150 * New option -r, --system for system accounts.
151 * New options -U, --user-group and -N, --no-user-group. These options
152 should replace nflg from the previous versions. Please set any -n
153 option to deprecated because its meaning differs from one distribution
155 * Make sure the passwd, group, shadow, and gshadow files are unlocked on
158 * Keep the access and modification time of files when moving an user's home
160 * Check that the new fields set with -u, -s, -l, -g, -f, -e, -d, and -c
161 differ from the old ones. If a requested new value is equal to the old
162 one, no changes will be performed for that field. If no fields are
163 changed, usermod will exist successfully with a warning. This avoids
164 logging changes to syslog when there are actually no changes.
165 * Fix the handling of -a when a user is being renamed (with -l)
167 * Recommend editing the shadowed (resp. regular) file if the regular (resp.
168 shadowed) file was edited.
170 shadow-4.0.18.2 -> shadow-4.1.0 09-12-2007
174 When compiled with PAM support, it used the chpasswd policy file instead
175 of the chgpasswd policy file. If an administrator added some restriction
176 to the chgpasswd policy file, they were not taken into account.
179 - Add support for SHA256 and SHA512 encrypt methods (supported by new
181 - useradd: Allow non numerical group identifier to be specified with
183 - chgpasswd, chpasswd: Fix chpasswd and chgpasswd stack overflow.
184 - newgrp: Do not give an indication that the group has no password. Ask
185 for the password, as if there were a password.
186 - The permissions of the suid binaries is now configurable in
187 src/Makefile.am. Note that changing the permissions is not recommended.
188 - newgrp.c: Declare the child and pid variable at the beginning of a block.
189 This fixes a compilation issue with gcc 2.95.
190 - login_nopam: Add support for systems with no innetgr(). On those
191 systems, username with an @ will be treated like any other username
192 (i.e. lookup in the local database for an user with an @). Thanks to
193 Mike Frysinger for the patch.
194 - Add support for uClibc with no l64a().
195 - userdel, usermod: Fix infinite loop caused by erroneous group file
196 containing two entries with the same name. (The fix strategy differs
198 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240915)
199 - userdel: Abort if an error is detected while updating the passwd or group
200 databases. The passwd or group files will not be written.
201 - usermod: Update the group database before flushing the nscd caches.
202 - usermod: Make sure the group modifications will be allowed before
203 writing the passwd files.
204 - Flush the nscd tables using nscd -i instead of the private glibc socket.
205 - usermod: Make usermod options independent of the argument order.
206 - newgrp: Do not request a password when a user uses newgrp to switch to
208 - passwd: -l/-u options: edit the shadow account expiry field *in
209 addition* to editing the password field.
210 - pwck: Remove the SHADOWPWD preprocessor check. Some check for /etc/shadow
212 - su: Avoid terminating the PAM library in the forked child. This is done
213 later in the parent after closing the PAM session.
214 - userdel: Fix the homedir prefix checking.
215 - passwd, usermod: Refuse to unlock an account when it would result in a
216 passwordless account.
217 - Full review of the usage of getpwnam(), getpwuid(), getgrnam(),
218 getgrgid(), and getspnam(). There should be no functional changes.
219 - gpasswd: Only read information from the local file group database. It
220 writes the changes in /etc/group and/or /etc/gshadow, but used to read
221 information from getgrnam (hence possibly from another group database).
222 - New login.defs variable: MAX_MEMBERS_PER_GROUP. It should provide a
223 better support for split groups. Be careful when using this variable:
224 not all tools support well split groups (in or out of the shadow
225 tool suite). It fixes gpasswd and chgpasswd when split groups are used.
226 - Use MD5_CRYPT_ENAB, ENCRYPT_METHOD, SHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS, and
227 SHA_CRYPT_MAX_ROUNDS to define the default encryption algorithm for the
229 - chpaswd, chgpasswd, newusers: New options -c/--crypt-method and
230 -s/--sha-rounds to supersede the system default encryption algorithm.
231 - chpaswd, chgpasswd, newusers: DES is no more the default algorithm. They
232 will respect the system default configured in /etc/login.defs
235 - Generate the translated manpages from PO at build time.
236 - The generated manpages will change depending on the configure options.
237 If you use different options than the one used for the distributed
238 archive, you should re-generate the manpages.
239 - login.defs should now describe all the variables.
240 - The tools' documentation details the login.defs variables they use.
242 shadow-4.0.18.1 -> shadow-4.0.18.2 28-10-2007
245 - usermod: fixed handle -a option (by Benno Schulenberg
246 <bensberg@justemail.net>),
247 - useradd: improved auditing support
248 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211659),
249 - groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod: flush nscd cashes
250 after close /etc/{group,passwd} files,
251 - su: If compiled without PAM support, enforce the limits from /etc/limits
252 when one of the -, -l, or --login options is set, even if called by root.
253 - limits: Support for 2 new resource limits: max nice value, and max real
254 time priority. The resource limits are not used when compiled with PAM.
256 - updated translations: fi, ja, nl, tl, zh_CN.
257 - groupadd.8, groupmod.8, login.1, useradd.8, userdel.8, usermod.8: grammar
258 mistakes and other corrections (by Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>),
260 shadow-4.0.18 -> shadow-4.0.18.1 03-08-2006
263 - groupmems: fixed compilation when PAM is disabled
264 (by Johannes Winkelmann <jw@smts.ch>),
265 - fixed missing man pages in dist tar ball necessary on build when
268 shadow-4.0.17 -> shadow-4.0.18 01-08-2006
271 - su: fixed set enviroment too early when using PAM, so move it to !USE_PAM
272 (patch submitted by Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>),
273 - groupadd, groupmod, useradd, usermod: fixed UID/GID overflow (fixed
274 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198920)
275 - passwd, useradd, usermod: fixed inactive/mindays/warndays/maxdays overflow
276 (simillar to RH#198920),
277 - groupmems: rewrited for use PAM and getopt_long() and now it is enabled
278 for build and install (patch by George Kraft <gk4@swbell.net>),
279 - S/Key: removed assign getpass() to libshadow_getpass() on autoconf level
280 (patch by Ulrich Mueller <ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de>; http://bugs.gentoo.org/139966),
281 - usermod: back to previous -a option semantics and clarify -a behavior
282 on documentation level (by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>),
283 - chsh, groupmod: rewrited for use getopt_long().
284 - updated translations: ca, cs, da, eu, fr, gl, hu, ko, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, uk, vi.
286 - fr and ru man pages are up to date,
287 - partially translated sv man pages set added
288 (by Daniel Nylander <info@danielnylander.se>),
289 - pl chage(1), chsh(1), groupmod(8): translation finished.
291 shadow-4.0.16 -> shadow-4.0.17 10-07-2006
294 - userdel, usermod: fixed segfault on remove home directory when it can't
295 be removed; for example when it is /dev/null (fixed http://bugs.gentoo.org/139148),
296 - improved SELinux detection on autoconf level (based on patch by
297 Dan Yefimov <dan@D00M.lightwave.net.ru>),
298 - removed using private implementation getpass() libc function
299 (now getpass() is used also when S/KEY support is enabled),
300 - move nologin do $(sbindir),
301 - useradd: fixed mail spool file creation (bug cached by Frans Pop
303 fixed http://bugs.debian.org/374705),
304 - updated translations: cs, da, de, ko, nb, nl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sv, vi,
305 - new translations: dz, km, ne.
307 - ru man pages up to date,
308 - lastlog(8): updated pl translation,
309 - faillog(5): added missing information about fail_locktime element of
310 faillog struct (by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>),
311 - updated translations: eu, fr, pl.
312 - reverted using docbook.sourceforge.net in XSL url.
314 shadow-4.0.15 -> shadow-4.0.16 05-06-2006
317 - userdel: better fix for old CERT VU#312962 (which was fixed in shadow 4.0.8):
318 fixed forgoten checking of the return value from fchown() before
319 proceeding with the fchmod() (based on Owl patch prepared by
320 Rafal Wojtczuk <nergal@owl.openwall.com>),
321 - userdel: use login.defs::MAIL_DIR instead hardcoded /var/mail in created
322 mailbox path (based on Owl fixes submited
323 by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>),
324 - by default do not use libshadow_getpass() as getpass() replacemement.
325 Use libshadow_getpass() only when S/KEY support is enabled.
326 Current glibc getpass() handles correctly longer than 8 characters
327 passwords and libshadow_getpass() is used only because libc getpass()
328 do not handles password prompting with echo enabled,
329 - move login.defs::MD5_CRYPT_ENAB to non-PAM part,
330 - userdel: rewrited for use getopt_log(),
331 - install default/template configuration files:
332 -- if shadow is configured with use PAM install /etc/pam.d/* files,
333 -- if shadow do not uses PAM install /etc/{limits,login.acces} files,
334 -- install /etc/login.defs and /etc/default/useradd files,
335 - fixed handle relative symlinks too in lib/commonio.c
336 (merge patch from Fedora),
337 - properly notify nscd to flush its cache
338 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/186803),
339 - useradd, usermod: fixes for verify return values mkdir() and chown()
340 on copy files (merge 482_libmisc_copydir_check_return_values Debian
342 - login, su (non-PAM variant): export MAIL only when MAIL_CHECK_ENAB
343 is enabled (Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>),
344 - pgck, grpck: warn when the members of a group differ in /etc/groups
345 and /etc/gshadow (fixed http://bugs.debian.org/75181),
346 - su: fixed exit with a status 0 when the invoked command is terminated
347 by a signal which was not catched
348 (fixed by Eero Häkkinen <eero17@bigfoot.com>),
349 - login: cancel login timeout after authentication so that patient people
350 timing out on network directory services can log in with local
351 accounts (http://bugs.debian.org/107148),
352 - chgpasswd: fixes for build correctly with --disable-shadowgrp
353 (patch by Johannes Winkelmann <jw@tks6.net>).
354 - updated translations: cs, da, es, eu, fi, fr, gl, hu, id, pt, ru, sk, sv, vi.
355 - new translations: hu.
357 - new cs man pages: groupmems(8), groupmod(8), grpck(8), gshadow(5)
358 (by Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>),
359 - regenerate roff man pages using docbook-style-xsl-1.70.1,
360 - bunch of cleanups in chfn(1), faillog(8), gpasswd(1), groupadd(8),
361 groupmems(8), limits(5), login(1), login.defs(5), newgrp(1), passwd(1),
362 passwd(5) and su(1) (by Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y@gmail.com>),
363 - update pl vipw(8) man page,
364 - added chgpasswd(8) ru man page,
365 - updated ru login.defs(5), passwd(1), userdel(8), usermod(8) man pages,
366 - pw_auth(3) man page removed (outdated),
367 - install limits(5), login.access(5) and porttime(5) man pages only when
368 shadow is builded with PAM support disabled,
369 - passwd(1): better document how password strength is checked
370 (fixed http://bugs.debian.org/115380),
371 - usermod(8): added missing -a option description
372 (by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>),
373 - hu chsh(1), lugin(1), newgrp(1): fixed typos
374 (by Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu>),
375 - login.defs(5): remove information about CREATE_HOME (patch by
376 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>),
377 - chgpasswd(8): new man page.
379 shadow-4.0.14 -> shadow-4.0.15 13-03-2006
382 - do not install translated man pages if shadow is configured with
384 (based patch submited by Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>),
385 - added fixes for detect BSD's S/Key with updated the skeychallenge()
386 function for take a fourth argument in case BSD version (patch submited by
387 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>),
388 - login: default UMASK if not specified in login.defs is 022 (pointed by
389 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>),
390 - chgpasswd: new tool (by Jonas Meurer <mejo@debian.org>),
391 - lastlog: print the usage and exit if an additional argument is profided to
392 lastlog (merge 488_laslog_verify_arguments Debian patch),
393 - login, newgrp, nologin, su: do not link with libselinux (merge
394 490_link_selinux_only_when_needed Debian patch),
395 - chage, chfn, chsh, passwd: fixed confusing error message if /proc is not
396 mounted (http://bugs.debian.org/352494 patch Nicolas François
397 <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>),
398 - login (merge 433_login_more_LOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB Debian patch):
399 - TOO MANY LOGIN... logged if PAM_MAXTRIES or failcount >= retries (was
400 onl test PAM_MAXTRIES),
401 - print to stderr (in addition to syslog) in case of maximum number of
403 - always prints the number of tries in the syslog entry.
404 - add special handling for PAM_ABORT
405 - add an entry to failog, as when USE_PAM is not defined. (#53164)
406 - changed pam_end to PAM_END. This is certainly was a mistake. PAM_END is
407 pam_close_seesion + pam_end. Here, the session is still not open, we
408 don't have to close it.
409 - a HAVE_PAM_FAIL_DELAY is missing,
410 - su: fixed pam session support (patch from Topi Miettinen; fixed #57526,
411 #55873, 57532 Debian bugs),
412 - userdel: user's group is already removed by update_groups().
413 remove_group() is not needed (bug introduced in 4.0.14 on merge FC fixes).
414 Fixed by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>,
415 - useradd: allways remove group and gshadow databases lock, Fixed by Nicolas
416 François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
417 (http://bugs.debian.org/348250)
419 - corrected prototypes in lib/prototypes.h (thre is no audit_help_log();
420 added audit_logger() prototype),
421 - useradd: fixed excess audit_logger() argument,
422 - chage: added missing \n on display password status if password must be
424 - useradd: fixed allow non-unique UID (http://bugs.debian.org/351281),
425 - variouse code cleanups for make possible compilation of shadow with -Wall
426 -Werror (by Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru>),
427 - su: move exit() outside libmisc/shell.c::shell() for handle shell() errors
428 on higher level (now is better visable where some programs exit with 126
429 and 127 exit codes); added new shell() parameter (char *const envp[])
430 which allow fix preserving enviloment in su on using -p, (patch by
431 Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru>),
432 - su: added handle -c,--command option for GNU su compliance (merge
433 437_su_-c_option Debian patch),
434 - login: added translate login prompt string (suggested by Evgeniy
436 - updated translations: ca, cs, da, el, es, eu, gl, fi, fr, it, nb, nl, pt,
437 pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sv, tl, vi, zh_CN,
438 - new translations: gl.
440 - ru man pages: added new nologin(8) and updated all other man pages (by
441 Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y@gmail.com>),
442 - chsh(1), su(1): update fi translations generated from XML files
443 (Tommi Vainikainen <thv+debian@iki.fi>),
444 - expiry(1), faillog(5), faillog(8), gpasswd(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8),
445 logoutd(8), nologin(8), vipw(8): added new cs man pages, (by Miroslav Kure
446 <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>)
447 - login.defs(5): default UMASK if not specified in login.defs is 022
448 (pointed by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>),
449 - useradd(8): better document that -d will not add the user's home directory
450 if it does not already exist (http://bugs.debian.org/154996),
451 - nologin(8) man pages added (merge 478_nologin.8.xml Debian patch).
453 shadow-4.0.13 -> shadow-4.0.14 03-01-2006
456 - fixes in handling login.defs: $MAIL_FILE is used in userdel and usermod,
457 $MD5_CRYPT_ENAB is used by crypt_make_salt, which is used by chpasswd,
458 gpasswd and newusers.
459 Both variables moved to PAM not dependent (447_missing_login.defs_variables
461 - chage: fix chage display when the last change field is set to 0.
462 This is consistent with PAM (merge 427_chage_expiry_0 Debian patch),
463 - su: if an password is expired, su should propose to change this password
464 (fixed http://bugs.debian.org/321384),
465 - login: added auditing support (based on Fedora patch for login from util-linux),
466 - useradd: merge PUG fixes from RedHat patch,
467 - nologin: new program,
468 - vipw: added a "quiet" mode (http://bugs.debian.org/190252),
469 - newgrp: added auditing support (by Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>),
470 - switch over to a new logging function (by Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>),
471 - userdel: fix incorrect audit record in userdel
472 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/174392),
473 - userdel: remove the user's group unless it is not really a user-private group
474 for better PUG support (based on FC patch),
475 - userdel: make the -f option force the removal of the user's group (even if it
476 is the primary group of another user)
477 (merge 453_userdel_-f_removes_group Debian patch),
478 - usermod: rewrited for use getopt_long() (Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
479 - grpck: fixed segmentation fault on using -s when /etc/gshadow is empty (fix by
480 Tomasz Lemiech <szpajder@staszic.waw.pl>),
481 - passwd: remove handle -f, -g and -s options.
482 - added handle -s/--shell, -m/-p/preserve-environment options like GNU su
483 (based on patches from Debian submited by
484 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>)
485 - su: export $USER and $SHELL as well as $HOME (http://bugs.debian.org/11003 and
486 http://bugs.debian.org/11189),
487 - su, vipw: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
488 - su: log successful/failed through syslog (http://bugs.debian.org/190215),
489 - updated translations: ca, cs, da, eu, fi, fr, it, pl, pt, ru, sv, tl, vi,
490 - new translations: gl.
492 - added es, ko vigr(8) and vipw(8), hu lastlog(8), ko vipw(8), zh_CN su(1),
493 zh_TW chpasswd(8) and su(1),
494 - added tr man pages: chage(1), chfn(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8),
495 login(1), passwd(1), passwd(5), shadow(5), su(1) useradd(8), userdel(8),
497 - passwd5): added es, hu, pt_BR, zh_CN zh_TW translations,
498 - added full set (up to date) fr man pages
499 (by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>),
500 - pwck(1): document -q option,
501 - WARNING: all translated man pages are now in UFT-8,
502 - added full set of ru man pages (by Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y@gmail.com>),
503 - login(1): better explain the respective roles of login, init and getty with regards
504 to the utmp file (merge 440_manpages-login.1 Debian patch),
505 - login(1): document how to initiate a trusted path on linux
506 (http://bugs.debian.org/305600),
507 - userdel(8): document the -f option; document the group removal behavior (merge
508 455_userdel.8.xml Debian patch),
509 - groupadd(8), useradd(8): document that useradd/groupadd refuse adding entries already in an
510 external database (http://bugs.debian.org/282184),
511 - updated it groupdel(8), passwd(1), pwconv(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8) man pages
512 (merge 205_it-manpages Debian patch),
513 - added fi chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), su(1),
514 - newusers(8): added it translation,
515 - newgrp(1): added de, es, zh_CN, zh_TW translations.
517 shadow-4.0.12 -> shadow-4.0.13 10-10-2005
520 - chage: removed duplicated pam_start(),
521 - chfn, chsh: finished PAM support usin pam_start() and co.,
522 - userdel: userdel should not remove the group which is primary for someone else
523 (fix by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
524 http://bugs.debian.org/295416),
525 - login: use "%c" in strftime() output (based on patch from
526 http://bugs.debian.org/89902 by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>),
527 - fixedlib/commonio.c: don't assume selinux is enabled if is_selinux_enabled()
528 returns -1 (merge isSelinuxEnabled FC patch by Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>),
529 - login, su (non-PAM case): fixed setup max address space limits (added missing break
530 statement in case) spoted by Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>,
531 - auditing support added. Patch prepared by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> basing
532 on work by Steve Grubb from http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159215
533 Now auditing support have commands: chage, gpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod,
534 useradd, userdel, usermod.
535 - chage, chfn, chsh, passwd: change to use new selinux API for
536 selinux_check_passwd_access() (patch from Fedora by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>),
537 - use #ident preprocesor directive istead RCID macro with content similar
538 to example described in ident(1) man page (modern compilers like latest GCC
539 removes not used functions by global optimization).
540 So "ident /usr/bin/passwd" will show again some useable informations
541 - su: fixed twice copy enviroment which causes auth problems
542 (bug was introduced in 4.0.12; fix by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>),
543 - chage: differentiate the different failure causes by the exit value
544 This will permit to adduser Debian script to detect if chage failed because the
545 system doesn't have shadowed passwords (fix for http://bugs.debian.org/317012),
546 - merge 010_more-i18ned-messages Debian patch which adds i18n support for few
547 more messages (orginaly patch was prepared by Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>),
548 - lastlog: added handle -b option which allow print only lastlog records older than
549 specified DAYS (fix by <miles@lubin.us>),
550 - chpasswd, gpasswd, newusers: fixed libmisc/salt.c for use login.defs::MD5_CRYPT_ENAB
551 only if PAM support is disabled (fix by John Gatewood Ham <zappaman@buraphalinux.org>),
552 - passwd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
553 - newgrp: when newgrp process sits between parent and child shells, it should
554 propagate STOPs from child to parent and CONTs from parent to child,
555 otherwise e.g. bash's "suspend" command won't work
556 Fixed Debian http://bugs.debian.org/314727
557 - updated translations: da, es, fr, pt, ro, ru.
559 - chsh(1), groupadd(8), newusers(8), pwconv(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8):
560 added missing references to /etc/login.defs and login.defs(5)
561 (Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
562 - passwd(5): rewrited based on work by Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
563 http://bugs.debian.org/328113
564 - login(1): added securetty(5) to SEE ALSO section
565 (fixed Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/325773),
566 - groupadd(8), useradd(8): fix regular expression describing alloved login/group
567 names (pointed by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>)
568 (correct is [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]),
569 - groupadd(8), useradd(8): documents in CAVEATS section the limitations shadow
570 places on user and group names (fix by Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>).
571 - chage(1), groupadd(8): document -h,--help option.
573 shadow-4.0.11.1 -> shadow-4.0.12 22-08-2005
576 - newgrp, login: remove using login.defs::CLOSE_SESSIONS variable and allways
578 - fixed configure.in: realy enable shadow group support by default (pointed by
579 Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au> and Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>),
580 - login.defs: removed handle QMAIL_DIR variable,
581 - login: allow regular user to login on read-only root file system (not only for root)
582 Patch by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
583 Fix for http://bugs.debian.org/52069
584 - gpasswd, grpck, grpconv, grpuconv: added flushing group nscd cache,
585 - pwck, pwconv: added flushing passwd nscd cache,
586 - usermod: fixed handle -p option (patch by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>),
587 - chage: use -1 as value for disable password inactivity, expiration date and
588 checking an password validation.
589 Based on patch by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> which fixes:
590 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109499
591 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137498
592 and on 427_chage_expiry_0 Debian patch (fix for http://bugs.debian.org/78961)
593 - useradd: do not copy files from skel directory if home directory exist and write
594 warning message about not copying skel files
595 Patch by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> which fixes:
596 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143150
597 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=158574
598 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=80242
599 - su: ignore SIGINT while authenticating. A ^C could defeat the waiting
600 period and permit brute-force attacks (fixed http://bugs.debian.org/288827),
601 - uClibc fixes (by Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>):
602 added require ngettext (added [need-ngettext] to AM_GNU_GETTEXT() parameters)
603 and stub prototype for ngettext() in lib/prototypes.h (neccessary if shadow
604 compiled with disabled NLS support)
605 - groupadd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
606 - groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, userdel: do OPENLOG() before pam_start(),
607 - groupadd: fixed double OPENLOG(),
608 - removed lib/{grpack,gspack,pwpack,sppack}.c and prototypes from lib/prototypes.h
610 - newusers: added flushing passwd and group nscd caches,
611 - passwd, pwunconv, userdel, vipw: remove flushing shadow nscd cache (nscd do not caches
613 - pwck: now pwck OPENLOG with correct name ("pwck" instead "pwsk")
614 (fix by Alexander Gattin <arg@online.com.ua>),
615 - pwck, grpck: replace all puts() with printf() - it fixes problems with extra blank
616 lines printed in some messages
617 (fix by Alexander Gattin <arg@online.com.ua>),
618 - passwd: use separated message "Password set to expire." instead "Password changed."
619 on "passwd -e" (fix by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org),
620 - updated translations: cs, de, fi, fr, nl, pl, pt, ru, sk.
622 - regenerate all roff man pages using DocBook XSLT Stylesheets 1.69.1,
623 - usermod(8): give the correct range for system users (0-999 instead of 0-99),
624 (http://bugs.debian.org/286258)
625 - chage(8): better description -1 value passwd in -E, -I and -M options,
626 - regenerate all roff man pages using DocBook XSLT Stylesheets 1.69.0.
628 shadow-4.0.11 -> shadow-4.0.11.1 21-07-2005
631 - fixed configure.in: now is possible build shadow with enabled/disabled shadow group
632 support (thanks for report symptoms of the bug to Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>),
633 - updated translations: sv.
635 shadow-4.0.10 -> shadow-4.0.11 18-07-2005
638 - su: ignore SIGINT while authenticating. A ^C could defeat the waiting period and
639 permit brute-force attacks. Also ignore SIGQUIT.
640 Fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/52372 and http://bugs.debian.org/288827
641 - useradd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
642 - newgrp: add fix for handle splitted NIS groups: extends the functionality that,
643 if the requested group is given, all groups of the same GID are tested for
644 membership of the requesting user.
645 (fix by Christian Mudra <C.Mudra@science-computing.de>)
646 - fix nscd_flush_cache(): for some reason doing the INVALIDATE call with two
647 write()'s fails. Do one writev() call instead.
648 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80413
649 (submited by Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>)
650 - merge nscd-socket-path patch from Fedora: newer glibc's have a different nscd socket
651 location (/var/run/nscd/socket instead /var/run/.nscd_socket),
652 - S/Key support is back,
653 - usermod: added -a option. This flag can only be used in conjunction with the -G
654 option. It cause usermod to append user to the current supplementary group list.
655 (patch by Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>)
656 - chage: added missing \n in error messages,
657 - useradd, groupadd: change -O option to -K and document it in man page,
658 - su, sulogin, login: fixed erroneous warning messages when used with PAM about some
659 login.defs variables (fix by DJ Lucas <dj@linuxfromscratch.org>),
661 -- stop with error message if crypt() not found,
662 -- remove --with{,out}-libcrypt switch,
663 -- move all autoheader templates from acconfig.h to configure.in,
664 - login: setup limits and umask (using login.defs ULIMITS and UMASK variables) only when
665 PAM support is disabled (it is task for pam_limits and pam_umask modules),
666 - sulogin, login: use SYSLOG macro instead syslog() which saves the locale, sets the
667 locale to C, sends the message and restores the locale
668 (fix by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>).
669 - updated translations: cs, da, de, es, fi, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk.
671 - pwck(8): document -q option (based on Debian patch for fix http://bugs.debian.org/309408)
672 - pwck(8): rewrited OPTIONS section and better SYNOPSIS,
673 - lastlog(8): document that lastlog is a sparse file, and don't need to be rotated
674 http://bugs.debian.org/219321
675 - login(8): better explain the respective roles of login, init and getty with regards
676 to the utmp file (based on 441_manpages-shadow.5 Debian patch),
677 - shadowconfig(8): removed (will be maintained in Debian shadow pkg repository),
678 - groupadd(8): document -o option,
679 - in SEE ALLSO section in groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), userdel(8), usermod(8)
680 added refer to gpasswd(8) (suggested by Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>).
682 shadow-4.0.9 -> shadow-4.0.10 28-06-2005
686 - userdel: now deletes user groups from /etc/gshdow as well as /etc/group.
687 Fix by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>.
688 http://bugs.debian.org/99442
689 - usermod: when relocating a user's home directory, don't fail and remove the new
690 home directory if we can't remove the old home directory for some
691 reason; the results can be spectularly poort if, for instance, only
692 the rmdir() fails. Patch prepared by Timo Lindfors <lindi-spamtrap@newmail.com>.
693 http://bugs.debian.org/166369
694 - su: fix syslogs to be less ambiguous. Use old:new format instead of old-new
695 because '-' can appear in usernames
696 http://bugs.debian.org/213592
697 - removed not used now libmisc/setup.c,
698 - login: use also UTMPX API instead UTMP on failure (login was affected for this
699 when shadow was builded without PAM support)
700 patch by Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
701 - login: the PAM session needs to be closed as root, thus before change_uid()
702 http://bugs.debian.org/53570 http://bugs.debian.org/195048 http://bugs.debian.org/211884
703 - login: made login's -f option also able to use the username after -- if none
704 was passed as it's optarg
705 http://bugs.debian.org/53702
706 - login: check for hushed login and pass PAM_SILENT if true,
707 http://bugs.debian.org/48002
708 - login: fixed username on succesful login (was using the normal username,
709 when it should have used pam_user) http://bugs.debian.org/47819
710 - remove using SHADOWPWD #define so now shadow is allways builded with shadow
712 - chage: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
713 - updated translations: ca, cs, da, fi, pl, ru, zh_TW.
715 - most of the man pages now are generated from XML files so in case submiting any
716 chages to this resources please make diff to XML files,
717 - chfn: give more details about the influence of login.defs on what's allowed to
720 shadow-4.0.8 -> shadow-4.0.9 23-05-2005
723 - passwd: fixed segfault in non-PAM connfiguration
724 (submited by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>),
725 - newgrp: fixed NULL pointer dereference - getlogin() and ttyname() can
726 return NULL which is not checked (http://bugs.debian.org/162303),
727 - updated translations: ro, ru,
728 - added new translations: vi,
729 - lib/getdef.c: leaves the table as it is, and changes from the binary search to
730 a sequential one (Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>),
731 - lastlog: fixed --help message (s,--login,--user,) http://bugs.debian.org/249611.
733 shadow-4.0.7 -> shadow-4.0.8 26-04-2005
736 - remove not working OPIE and SKEY support,
737 - chage, useradd, usermod: reduce multiple OPENLOG() calls,
738 - passwd: fix #61313 Debian bug: "passwd -S root" (as a normal user) should not
739 display "You may not change the password for root.",
740 - vipw: fixed race condition (Debian #242407 bug; fix by Alexander Gattin
741 <arg@online.com.ua>),
742 - configure.in: add using AC_GNU_SOURCE macro for kill compilation warnings about
743 implicit declaration of function `fseeko',
744 - faillog: changed faillog record display format for allow fit in 80 columns all
746 - removed NDBM code (unused),
747 - fixed use of SU_WHEEL_ONLY in su. Now su realy is avalaible for wheel group
748 members. Thanks to Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> for report:
749 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80345
750 - drop never finished kerberos and des_rpc support (for kerberos support back firs
751 must be prepared modularization),
752 - fixed UTMP path detection (by Kelledin <kelledin@users.sf.net>),
753 - useradd: rewrited group count to dynamic (by John Newbigin
754 <jnewbigin@ict.swin.edu.au>),
755 - login: fixed create lastlog entry fo users never loged in on non-PAM
756 variant of login (fix by <oracular@ziplip.com>),
757 - remove handle login.defs::NOLOGIN_STR (never used),
758 - useradd: fixes a potential security problem when mailbox is created in
760 Patch and comment by Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu>:
761 Only two arguments are passed to the open() call though it expects three
762 because O_CREAT is present. Hence the permission of the file first becomes
763 some random garbage found on the stack, and an attacker can perhaps open
764 this file and hold it open for reading or writing before the proper
765 fchmod() is executed. (Actually, we could also pass the final "mode" to
766 the open() call and then save the consequent fchmod().)
767 - SELinux changes: added changes in chage, chfn, chsh, passwd for allow
768 construct more grained user password/accuunt properties on SELinux
769 policies level. Patch originally based on RH changes (submited by Chris
770 PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>),
771 - added SELinux changes: in libmisc/copydir.c (based on Fedora patch),
772 - updated translations: cs, da, es, eu, fi, fr, it, ko, nl, pl, pt, sk, uk,
773 - added new translations: tl,
774 - reindent all source code using -l80,
776 - it man pages (by Danilo Piazzalunga <danilopiazza@libero.it>):
777 -- updated: chfn.1, chsh.1, groups.1, grpck.8, grpconv.8,
778 grpunconv.8, id.1, lastlog.8, login.1, newgrp.1, pwunconv.8, shadow.5,
780 -- new: chage.1, chpasswd.8, expiry.1, faillog.5, faillog.8, getspnam.3,
781 logoutd.8, porttime.5, pwck.8, shadow.3, shadowconfig.8, su.1,
782 - passwd(1): fix #160477 Debian bug: improve -S output description,
783 - newgrp(1): fix #251926, #166173, #113191 Debian bugs: explain why editing /etc/group
784 (without gshadow) doesn't permit to use newgrp,
785 - newgrp(1): newgrp uses /bin/sh (not bash),
786 - faillog(8): updated after rewrited faillog command for use getopt_long(),
787 - login(1): removed fragment about abilities pass enviroment variables in login prompt,
788 - gshadow(5): new file (by Nicolas Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>),
789 - usermod(8): fixed #302388 Debian bug: added separated -o option description,
791 shadow-4.0.6 -> shadow-4.0.7 26-01-2005
793 - updated translations: da, es, fi, it, nl, pl, pt,
794 - added zh_TW translation (from Debian resources),
795 - remove unused now files in lib/ directory,
796 - switch faillog to use getopt_long(),
797 - added de vigr(8), vipw(8) man pages (from Debian resources),
798 - added ro, sq translations (from Debian resources),
799 - fixed large file support in lastlog and faillog:
800 -- added AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro to autoconf,
801 -- use fseeko() instead fseek() and remove casting file offsets to unsigned
804 -- rewrited source code using the same style as in chpasswd.c,
805 -- open lastlog file after finish parse comman line optiomns
806 (now --help otput can be displayd for users without lastlog
807 file read permission),
808 -- cleanups in lastlog(8) man page using the same style as in
811 -- switch chpasswd to use getopt_long() and adds a --md5 option
812 (by Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>),
813 -- rewrited chpasswd(8) man page.
815 shadow-4.0.5 -> shadow-4.0.6 08-11-2004
817 - su: fixed adding of pam_env env variables to enviroment
818 (Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>),
819 - autoconf: fixed filling MAIL_SPOOL_DIR and MAIL_SPOOL_FILE variables
820 which was allways empty (Gregorio Guidi <g.guidi@sns.it>),
821 - realuy closse security bug in libmisc/pwdcheck.c,
822 - added missing template/example PAM service config files for chfn, chsh and
824 - do not translate variable names from /etc/default/useradd during
827 shadow-4.0.4.1 -> shadow-4.0.5 27-10-2004
829 - change libmisc to private static library,
830 - added SELinux support (basing on patch from Gentoo),
831 - chage: more verbose/human readable -l output. This output is much more
832 beter for send directly via email for each users as message with account
833 status (for example as message with warning about account/password expiration),
834 - login: fixed handle -f option: now it works correctly without specify "-h
835 <host>" if open login session localy is required (thanks for help
836 investigate bug for Krzysztof Kotlenga),
837 - userdel: when removing a user with userdel, userdel was always exits with 1 (fixed).
838 Based on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66687,
839 - useradd: added handle /etc/defaults/useradd::CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL={yes|no}.
840 Now on adding user account can be also created empty user mail spool.
841 Curent code handle only mailbox.
842 TODO: add handle create user mail spool in maildir format.
843 - useradd: when placing symlinks into /etc/skel copy_tree of
844 libmisc/copydir.c will properly create the symlink in the destination
845 directory but not change the ownership to the target user/group. This
846 makes httpd Option SymlinkIfOwnerMatch break for default weg pages
847 including symlinks placed into /etc/skel/public_html for example.
848 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66819
849 - su: add pam_open_session() support. If builded without PAM support
850 propagate $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY enviroment variables.
851 Based on http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/shadow/files/shadow-4.0.4.1-su-pam_open_session.patch?rev=1.1
852 - applied 036_pam_access_with_preauth.patch Debian patch submited by Bjorn
853 Torkelsson <Bjorn.Torkelsson@hpc2n.umu.se>: add support for PAM account
854 management to restrict access using pam_access when login is invoked with -f.
855 - applied Owl patches by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>:
856 shadow-4.0.4.1-owl-pam-auth.diff:
857 Moved the PAM authentication in user management commands after
858 command-line parsing, made it use separate service names for each command.
859 Use constant strings rather than argv[0] for syslog ident in the user
861 shadow-4.0.4.1-owl-tmp.diff:
862 Remove using mktemp() if mkstemp() prototype not found (use allways mkstemp()),
863 shadow-4.0.4.1-owl-check-reads.diff:
864 Add checking for read errors in commonio and vipw/vigr (not doing so could
865 result in data loss when the records are written back),
866 - fixed securirty bug in libmisc/pwdcheck.c which allow unauthorized
867 account properties modification.
868 Affected tools: chfn and chsh.
869 Bug was discovered by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>.
870 - added it translation (by Danilo Piazzalunga <danilopiazza@libero.it>),
871 - added sk translation (by Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk>, submited by Christian
872 Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
873 - added es translation (by Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>),
874 - updated ko translation (by Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>),
875 - added fi translation (by Tommi Vainikainen <thv@iki.fi>),
876 - new translations: bs, ca, da, eu, he, id, nb, nl, nn, pt, pt_BR, tr,
877 zh_CN (stolen from Debian),
878 - remove adduser(8) roff include man page to useradd(8).
880 shadow-4.0.4 => shadow-4.0.4.1 14-01-2004
881 - bug fixes in automake files for generate correct tar ball on "make dist":
882 added mising "EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS)" in man/*/Makefile.am.
884 shadow-4.0.3 => shadow-4.0.4 14-01-2004
887 - added missing information about -f options in groupadd usage mesage
888 (document this also in man page),
889 - removed TCFS support (tcfs is dead),
890 - convert all po/*.po files to utf-8,
891 - one TODO entry gone: fix nscd flushing databases on change (use
892 per service flushing method instead HUPing nscd process),
893 - removed old AUTH_METHODS dependent code,
894 - chage: now all code depend on SHADOWPWD. If shadow will not be configured
895 on autoconf level for using shadow possword chage is olny stub which
896 informs "chage not configured for shadow password support."
898 - login: remove handle login.defs::DIALUPS_CHECK_ENAB code,
899 - login: remove handle login.defs::NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE code,
900 - ALL tools, libraries: remove old SVR4, SVR4_SI86_EUA BSD_QUOTA and ATT_AGE
902 - ALL: ready for gettext 0.11.5, automake 1.7.4, autoconf 2.57,
903 - logoutd, userd: handle also utmpx if avalaile,
904 - newgrp: fix for non-PAM version
905 Use CLOSE_SESSIONS depending code only when USE_PAM.
906 The problem was reported by Mattias Webjorn Eriksson using Slackware
907 8.1 and reproduced it using slackware-current (9.0beta) (fix submited by
908 Simon Williams <simon@no-dns-yet.org.uk>),
909 - fix in too_many_failures() function: incorrect if() condition in non-PAM
910 dependent code in fail login handling (fixed by Krzysztof
911 Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>),
913 - install groups(1) man page (moved from EXTRA_DIST to man_MANS),
914 - removed pwauth(8), d_passwd(5), dialups(5) man pages,
915 - remove text about password aging from passwd(5) (based on Debian changes),
916 - document useradd and groupadd -M option in en and pl man pages
917 (by Jakub Mikusek <mick3y@o.k.pl>).
918 - added ru passwd(1) man page from KSI resources,
919 - added es man pages found in Conectiva distribution resources,
920 - added chch(1), chfn(1) man pages from chinese man pages translation
922 - added id(1) man page czech man pages translation project,
923 - updated ja man pages and added expiry(1),
924 - removed old doc/ANNOUNCE,
925 - updated german passwd(1), chsh(1) and login(1) man page and added chfn(1)
926 (by Josef Spillner <josef@ggzgamingzone.org>),
927 - many other cleanups and unifications in man pages.
929 shadow-4.0.2 => shadow-4.0.3 13-03-2002
931 - added variouse cs, de, fr, id, it, ko man pages found mainly in national
932 man pages translations projects (this documents are not synced with
933 current en version but you know .. "Documentations is lik sex. When it is
934 good it very very good. Whet it is bad it is better than nothing."). Any
935 changes for syncing this are welcome and for anyone who will want maintain
936 this documents directly I can give cvs write access to project resources.
937 - added new de translation (by Frank Schmid <frank@cs-schmid.de>).
938 - fixed building --with-shared: swapped utent (in src/login.c and
939 libmisc/utmp.c) and pwent (in libmisc/suauth.c and src/su.c)
940 definition/extern (by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
941 - minor changes and updates in man pages (also merged
942 shadow-4.0.0-owl-man.patch by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>).
944 shadow-4.0.1 => shadow-4.0.2 17-02-2002
946 - resolve many fuzzy translations also all this which may cause problems on
947 displaing long uid/gid,
948 - allow use "$" on ending in cereated by useradd usermname accounts for allow
949 create machine acounts for samba (thanks to Jerome Borsboom
950 <borsboom@tch.fgg.eur.nl> for point this problem in 4.0.1),
951 - fix small but ugly bug in configure.in in libpam_mics library detection.
953 shadow-4.0.0 => shadow-4.0.1
955 - added ability to log session closes in newgrp
956 (Joseph Parmelee <jparmele@wildbear.com>),
957 - add -pcs to .indent.pro file and reindent all code in src/,
958 - remove "\n" from all SYSLOG() messages,
959 - finish integrate AGING code into SHADOWPW,
960 - remove handle old HAVE_USERSEC_H code,
961 - updated ja and added hu man pages,
962 - applied patches by Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>:
963 shadow-4.0.0-owl-chage-drop-priv.diffd
964 shadow-4.0.0-owl-chage-ro-no-lock.diff:
965 Added locks which are needed when doing r/w accesses, not when running
966 as root. If root does read-only, there's no lock needed. Added missing
967 "#include <errno.h>" for above (me).
968 shadow-4.0.0-owl-warnings.diff
969 Olny one fix from this patch was aplayd because other was fixed few days
971 shadow-4.0.0-owl-check_names.diff
972 Merge only prat this patch with checking login name matching; checking
973 is login string isn't longer than possible it will be good prepare using
974 probably _POSIX_LOGIN_NAME_MAX from <bits/posix1_lim.h>,
975 shadow-4.0.0-owl-chage-drop-priv.diff
976 shadow-4.0.0-owl-pam-auth.diff
977 Merge part with reorder initialize PAM and checkin is chage is runed by
978 root or not - now chage can be runed from non-root account for checking
979 by user own account information (if PAM enabled).
980 - fixes for handle/print correctly 32bit uid/gid (Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>),
981 - implemented functions for better reloading the nscd cache (per NSS map)
982 (Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>),
983 - fixed warnings "not used but defined" on compile using gcc 3.0.x
984 (bulletpr00ph <bullet@users.sourceforge.net>),
985 - added ja, ko translations found in SuSE,
986 - added symlinks: newgrp -> sg, vipw -> vigr,
987 - added vigr(1) man page as roff .so link to vipw(1),
988 - added sg(1) man page as roff .so link to newgrp(1),
989 - installed fix for SEGV when using pwck -s on /etc/passwd file with
992 shadow-20001016 => shadow-4.0.0 06-01-2002
994 - fix bug discovered and fixed by Marcel Ritter
995 <Marcel.Ritter@rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
996 Due to a big buffer size in lib/commonio.c this error does only appear
997 if a line gets longer than 4096 bytes (there are probably very few people
998 stumbling across this).
999 Ths bug can be exposed by trashing /etc/groups file using useradd with script:
1004 while [ $NUM -le 1000 ]; do
1005 useradd -g demogroup -G demogroup -p "NONE" user$NUM
1008 - remove limit 32 to groups per user by (the same user can belong to
1009 more than 32 groups) by use sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) instead constant
1010 NGROUPS_MAX (patch by Radu Constantin Rendec <radu.rendec@ines.ro>)
1011 NOTE: it probably need testing on other system for add
1012 some condition for using sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) or NGROUPS_MAX constant,
1013 - added -s option to {pw,grp}ck to sort checked files by UID/GID,
1014 - drop detecting is pam_strerror() need one or two arguments. Instead using
1015 PAM_STRERROR() macro use directly pam_strerror() function with two
1016 arguments. pam_strerror() with one argument is obsoleted,
1017 - adde ja man pages (probably some man pages need update),
1018 - much better automake support,
1019 - added pt_BR man pages for gpasswd(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8),
1020 groupmod(8), shadow(5) (man pages for other nations also are welcome),
1021 - mamny small fixes and updates nad improvements in man pages,
1022 - aplayed Debian patch to man pages for shadowconfig,
1023 - remove limit to 6 chars logged tty name (012_libmisc_sulog.c.diff Debian
1026 shadow-20001012 -> shadow-20001016:
1027 - conditionaly disabled body reload_nscd() because not every
1028 version of nscd can handle it (this can be enabled by define
1029 ENABLE_NSCD_SIGHUP) (Marek Michałkiewicz <marekm@linux.org.pl>)
1030 - fixes on autoconf/automake level for dist target,
1031 - Julianne F. Haugh new contact adress.
1033 shadow-20000902 => shadow-20001012
1035 - removed /redhat directory with obsoleted files (partialy rewrited spec
1036 file is now in root directory),
1037 - aplayed shadow-19990827-group.patch patch from RH wich prevents adduser
1038 overwrite previously existing groups in adduser,
1039 - added PAM support for chage (bind to "chage" PAM config file) also
1040 added PAM support for all other small tools like chpasswd, groupadd,
1041 groupdel, groupmod, newusers, useradd, userdel, usermod (bind to common
1042 "shadow" PAM config file) - this modificaytions mainly based on
1043 modifications prepared by Janek Rękojarski <baggins@pld.org.pl>,
1044 - many small fixes and improvments in automake (mow "make dist"
1046 - added cs translation (Jiri Pavlovsky <Jiri.Pavlovsky@ff.cuni.cz>).
1048 shadow-20000826 => shadow-20000902
1050 This is probably the last release from me.
1051 Tomasz Kloczko <kloczek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl> is the new maintainer.
1054 (I'm still interested to know what is going on with this package,
1055 which is fairly important to many Linux distributions, so please
1056 Cc: marekm@linux.org.pl in any related discussions - just don't
1057 expect me to respond quickly...)
1059 Previous warning still applies - be careful!
1061 - applied some of the Red Hat patches (revised slightly), thanks to
1062 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>: fix for truncated long
1063 lines (>8K) in /etc/group, send SIGHUP to nscd (caching daemon
1064 in glibc 2.1.x) after changing anything, add usermod -L and -U
1065 options, remove LOG_CONS from openlog(), chage -d and -E handles
1066 dates in yyyy-mm-dd format ('/' is not required)
1069 shadow-19990827 => shadow-20000826
1071 WARNING: this release is not tested (other than that it compiles for me),
1072 please be careful. Previous release was a year ago, so it is really time
1073 to release something and start looking for a new, better maintainer...
1074 (I've been extremely busy recently. Credit for most of the real work,
1075 such as complete PAM support, should go to Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
1076 who maintains this package for Debian.)
1078 - merged most of the changes from Debian (not all of them yet, PAM support
1079 should be complete but is not tested - need to upgrade to potato first)
1080 - added Polish translations of manual pages from PLD
1081 - change sulog() to not depend on global variables oldname, name
1082 - try to not follow symbolic links when deleting files recursively
1083 in userdel (still not perfect, safest to do it in single user mode)
1084 - removed workarounds for ancient (pre-ANSI) C compilers - use gcc!
1085 (a few ANSI C constructs were used already, and no one complained)
1086 - updated author's e-mail address (jfh@bga.com -> jfh@austin.ibm.com)
1088 shadow-19990709 => shadow-19990827
1090 - upgrade to autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, libtool-1.3.3
1091 - i18n: added French translation by Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>
1092 - i18n: added Swedish translation by Kristoffer Brånemyr <ztion@swipnet.se>
1093 - logoutd no longer reads /etc/logoutd.mesg at startup - instead, read
1094 it when sending to luser's tty (no need to reload with SIGHUP)
1095 - added support for "usergroups" feature often found in Linux distributions
1096 (if USERGROUPS_ENAB in login.defs set to "yes", uid != 0, uid == gid, and
1097 username == groupname, then set umask to 002 instead of 022)
1098 - Debian: pwck and grpck are now run from a daily cron job (root will
1099 receive an e-mail if something is wrong), and at system startup
1100 - added support for setting umask in /etc/limits
1101 - when using OPIE, re-prompt with echo on after empty password was entered
1102 - GETPASS_ASTERISKS now run time configurable (login.defs)
1103 - getpass() now uses stdin and stderr (not stdout) if it can't open /dev/tty
1104 - getpass() allows all input to be erased using Control-U, and beeps when
1105 too many characters are entered
1106 - removed obsolete sgtty support, in 1999 everyone should have termios :)
1107 - Debian: tar wrapper no longer needed to build packages as non-root user
1108 (install libtricks, and use "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" instead)
1109 - Debian: changes for GNU Hurd by Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>:
1110 dpkg-architecture, cross compilation, only build passwd, add
1111 etc/login.defs.hurd conffile, conditionalize CBAUD
1112 - newgrp sets $HOME before running the new shell
1113 - both "sg group command" (usage message) and "sg group -c command"
1114 (man page) work, updated both the usage message and the man page :)
1115 - i18n: added missing _() for some translatable strings
1117 shadow-19990607 => shadow-19990709
1119 - added PAM support to chfn and chsh (thanks to Thorsten Kukuk)
1120 - fixed a bug in newgrp if the user is in >= 17 groups
1121 - added @LIBSKEY@ to LDADD for all programs (for some reason,
1122 almost all programs need it if skey/opie support is enabled)
1123 - changed grpconv/grpunconv to compile with --disable-shadowgrp
1124 - changed faillog to do something (assume -p) with no options specified
1125 - updated version of the udbachk passwd/shadow/group file integrity
1126 checker (contrib/udbachk.v012.tgz)
1128 shadow-19990307 => shadow-19990607
1130 - upgraded to libtool-1.2, latest config.{guess,sub}
1131 - added missing #include "defines.h" in libmisc/login_desrpc.c - thanks
1132 to almost everyone for reporting it :-)
1133 - moved PAM-related defines to pam_defs.h
1134 - added some braces to if/else to avoid egcs warnings
1135 - started adding PAM support to login (based on util-linux, not finished yet)
1136 - changed "!" to "x" for pw_passwd in src/newusers.c
1137 - a few more Y2K fixes
1138 - added contrib/udbachk.tgz (passwd/shadow/group file integrity checker),
1139 thanks to Sami Kerola
1140 - Debian: made /etc/{limits,login.access,login.defs,porttime,securetty}
1141 files all mode 0600 (Bug#38729 - login: /etc/limits is world readable)
1142 - updated mailing list information (moved again, now hosted by SuSE),
1143 updated README.mirrors, other minor documentation updates
1144 - made getpass work with redirected stdin
1145 - new readpass echoing asterisks disabled by default by popular demand
1146 (can be enabled at compile time: ./configure --enable-readpass)
1147 - the random number of asterisks in readpass is now more random
1148 (random number generator initialization was missing)
1149 - commented out --enable-md5crypt (obsolete) in configure.in
1150 - when checking for libskey, link with -lcrypt if libcrypt is available
1151 (otherwise the configure test for libskey fails - libskey needs libcrypt)
1152 - added Package/Version ident strings (so you can use the RCS "ident"
1153 command to check any binary, which version of shadow it comes from)
1155 shadow-981228 => shadow-19990307
1157 - added support for setting process priority in /etc/limits
1158 - i18n: updated Greek translation
1159 - i18n: added Polish translation by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
1160 - documented the -p option in useradd.8 and usermod.8 man pages
1161 - some "const" gcc warning fixes
1162 - attempt to fix lib/snprintf.c compilation problems
1163 - added restart/reload/force-reload to /etc/init.d/logoutd (found by lintian)
1164 - always require password for root logins (even with NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE)
1165 - workaround for RedHat's CREATE_HOME feature in /etc/login.defs
1166 - changed to Y2K compatible version numbering
1167 - more Y2K fixes, use the ISO 8601 date format (yyyy-mm-dd) for default
1168 values of user-entered dates (you can still enter dates in any format
1169 supported by GNU date)
1170 - oops, added doc/README.nls to list of files to distribute
1171 - added missing sanitize_env() call to src/login.c
1172 - debian/rules installs /bin/login non-setuid by default, just in case...
1173 - build Debian packages with cracklib support (depends on cracklib-runtime)
1175 shadow-980724 => shadow-981228
1177 - login now clears the username in argv[] (in case someone types the
1178 password instead of username, by mistake)
1179 - i18n support, Greek translation (Nikos Mavroyanopoulos), see README.nls
1180 - updated author's e-mail address (jfh@tab.com -> jfh@bga.com)
1181 - new getpass() replacement that displays *'s (Pavel Machek)
1182 - no password required when logging in from ttys listed under
1183 NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE in login.defs (Pavel Machek)
1184 - fixed limits code so RLIMIT_AS should work
1185 - upgraded to Debian 2.0
1186 - built a new machine (P2 350MHz, 64MB RAM) so the thing can be compiled
1187 in reasonable time again
1188 - upgraded to automake-1.3, libtool-1.0h (also new config.guess and
1189 config.sub that work on i686)
1190 - usermod fixed to handle group names starting with digits (not recommended)
1192 shadow-980626 => shadow-980724
1194 - security: login no longer gives you a root shell if setgid()
1195 or initgroups() or setuid() fails for any reason, discovered
1196 by Ted Hickman <thickman@sy.net>
1197 - remove libshadow.so -> libshadow.so.x.x symlink after install
1198 - a few int -> uid_t type cleanups
1199 - fail immediately (don't retry) in *_lock() if euid != 0
1200 - added sample PAM config files etc/pam.d/{passwd,su}
1201 - preliminary PAM support in su (untested - use at your own risk,
1202 comments and patches welcome!)
1203 - cleanup and more comments in OPIE code (Algis Rudys)
1204 - added support for TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic File System)
1205 (use ./configure --with-libtcfs, see http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/
1206 for more info), thanks to Aniello Del Sorbo
1208 shadow-980529 => shadow-980626
1210 - fixed bug in commonio_lock() (infinite recursion if lckpwdf() not
1211 used and database cannot be locked), thanks to Jonathan Hankins
1212 - fixed bug in copy_tree() (NUL-terminate readlink() results),
1213 thanks to Lutz Schwalowsky
1214 - no need to press Enter after Ctrl-C to interrupt password prompt
1215 - removed a few harmless gcc warnings
1216 - secure RPC login disabled if <rpc/key_prot.h> not found (glibc 2.0)
1217 - faillog.8: changed /usr/adm -> /var/log
1218 - pwconv.8: documented that it may fail on invalid password files
1220 shadow-980417 => shadow-980529
1222 - fixed "interesting" strzero() bug introduced by me in 980417:
1223 strzero(cp) didn't work as intended (the macro used a local
1224 variable called "cp" - oops...); Leonard N. Zubkoff was the
1225 first person to report it - thanks!
1226 - fixed usermod -e to accept empty argument (like useradd),
1227 thanks to Martin Bene
1228 - several changes from Debian 980403-0.2, see debian/changelog
1229 - added contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch (not yet merged, sorry...)
1230 thanks to Calle Karlsson
1232 shadow-980403 => shadow-980417
1234 - fixed login session limits (again - broken since 980130)
1235 - more symbolic constants for exit status values
1236 - fixed logoutd to work with 8-character usernames in utmp
1237 (no room for terminating NUL!)
1238 - various fixes to make the code more glibc2-friendly
1239 - updated doc/cracklib26.diff (fix for empty gecos, etc.)
1240 - updated the files in redhat/ from shadow-utils-970616-11.src.rpm
1243 shadow-980130 => shadow-980403
1245 - security: su now creates the sulog file (if enabled and doesn't
1246 already exist) with umask 077
1247 - hopefully removed arbitrary group size limits (not yet for
1248 shadow groups though - sgetsgent() still needs a rewrite,
1249 but I don't want to delay this release any longer...)
1250 - fixed NULL dereference in groupmod -n
1252 shadow-971215 => shadow-980130
1254 - Debian binary packages can be built without root privileges
1255 (tar wrapper - debian/tar.c)
1256 - new subdir "redhat" (needs more work, see redhat/README)
1257 - in several places, exit(127) if exec fails with ENOENT, and
1258 exit(126) on other errors (as in ksh and bash)
1259 - renamed getpass() and md5_crypt() to libshadow_* to avoid name
1260 conflicts with libc functions - md5_crypt() is also in libcrypt.a
1261 on Linux/PPC, thanks to Anton Gluck <gluc@midway.uchicago.edu>
1262 - handle crypt() returning NULL (possible according to Single Unix
1263 Spec) more gracefully (exit instead of SIGSEGV)
1264 - fixed bug in putgrent() that showed up when realloc() moved the
1265 buffer while expanding it, thanks to Floody <flood@evcom.net>
1266 - fixed bug in login session limits (with a limit set to N logins,
1267 only N-1 logins were allowed), thanks to Floody <flood@evcom.net>
1268 - upgraded to libtool-1.0h (now recognizes GNU ld on Debian 1.3.1)
1269 - newer config.guess and config.sub (should work on x86 for x > 5)
1270 - removed doc/automake-1.0.diff (obsoleted by automake-1.2)
1271 - added doc/cracklib26.diff (some patches for cracklib-2.6)
1272 - documented more (not all yet) login.defs(5) settings
1273 - replaced more exit status numeric values with #defines
1274 - shadow-utils.spec now generated from shadow-utils.spec.in
1275 (so I don't have to edit version numbers for every new release)
1276 - groupadd -f option, based on RedHat's shadow-utils-970616-9 patch
1277 ("force" - exit(0) if the group already exists); other RedHat-
1278 specific options not added yet (best done in a perl script that
1279 runs useradd/usermod/groupadd - see Debian's adduser-3.x)
1280 - added -O option (override login.defs values) to useradd and groupadd
1281 - if usermod can't update the group file(s), exit(10) but update the
1282 password file(s) anyway (as documented by Solaris man page)
1283 - useradd should no longer set sp_expire to the current date (oops)
1284 - configure.in: added --enable-desrpc, check for gethostbyname in libc
1285 before trying libnsl (necessary for Solaris; not for Linux or Irix,
1286 even though libnsl may be present), fixed pw_age/pw_comment/pw_quota
1287 detection, setpgrp vs. setpgid, other minor tweaks
1288 - various */Makefile.am tweaks
1289 - login.defs: added FAKE_SHELL - program to run instead of the login
1290 shell, with the real shell in argv[0] (Frank Denis)
1291 - login.defs: ignore case in yes/no settings
1292 - more E_* defines instead of hardcoded numbers for exit()
1293 - added sanitize_env() for setuid programs
1294 - login_desrpc() checks for getnetname() errors
1295 - new password is not "too similar" if it is long enough
1296 - replacement strstr() was static, no one noticed :-)
1297 - {pw,spw}_lock() and {pw,spw}_unlock() track the lock count and call
1298 lckpwdf() and ulckpwdf() as needed, *_lock_first() hack removed
1299 - login sets $REMOTEHOST for remote logins
1300 - added newgrp -l option (Single Unix Spec, same as "-")
1301 - EXPERIMENTAL shared lib support using libtool (libshadow.so saves about
1302 200K of disk space on Linux/x86), enabled by default if supported by
1303 the system, use ./configure --disable-shared if it causes any problems.
1304 Warning: libshadow.so is intended for internal use by this package
1305 only - binary compatibility with future releases is not guaranteed.
1306 There should be no need to link any other programs with libshadow.so -
1307 the libshadow.so -> libshadow.so.x.x symlink is unnecessary.
1308 - pam_strerror() takes one or two arguments, depending on the Linux-PAM
1309 version (!) - added check to configure; fixed do_pam_passwd prototype
1310 - libmisc/login_access.c should compile on Linux/PPC and Solaris
1311 - added information about the new ftp site to doc/README.mirrors
1313 shadow-971001 => shadow-971215
1315 - added workaround for NYS libc 5.3.12 (RedHat 4.2) bug to grpck
1316 - updated the RPM .spec file
1317 - renamed rlogin() to do_rlogin() to avoid Linux/PPC build problem
1318 (glibc defines something else named "rlogin" in utmpbits.h ?)
1319 - added MD5 checksums in Debian packages
1320 - added -p and -g options to vipw (edit the password or group file
1321 respectively, regardless of the command name in argv[0])
1322 - removed old DBM support (NDBM code is still there)
1323 - fixed a bug in gpasswd: current username was incorrectly identified as
1324 "root" because of setuid(0) done too early. It may be a security hole
1325 when using shadow groups - if "root" is listed as a group administrator,
1326 any user can add/remove members in that group. Thanks to Jesse Thilo.
1327 - gpasswd now logs which user (root or group admin) made the changes
1328 - passwd now uses $PATH to search for the chfn, chsh, gpasswd commands
1329 - newgrp and add_groups() allocate supplementary group lists dynamically
1330 - moved check_shell() from src/chsh.c to libmisc/chkshell.c
1331 - CHFN_RESTRICT in login.defs can now specify exactly which fields may be
1332 changed by regular users (any combination of letters "frwh")
1333 - fixed contrib/pwdauth.c segfault with non-existent usernames
1334 - minor change in lib/getdef.c to handle quotes better (Juergen Heinzl)
1335 - new date parsing code (from GNU date) used by useradd, usermod, chage
1336 - upgraded to automake-1.2, added libtool-0.7 (no libshadow.so yet)
1337 - converted code to ANSI C, added ansi2knr (untested - use gcc!)
1338 - fixed useradd -G segfault (one '*' that shouldn't be there)
1339 - allow 8-bit characters in chfn
1340 - added support for RLIMIT_AS (max address space) in libmisc/limits.c
1341 - changed the handling of NIS plus entries in password files
1342 - some more tweaking in various debian/* files
1343 - logoutd uses getutent() instead of reading utmp file directly
1344 - fixed lckpwdf() called twice (and failing) when changing password
1345 if the user is not listed in /etc/shadow (Mike Pakovic)
1346 - erase and kill characters left unchanged if not defined in login.defs
1348 shadow-970616 => shadow-971001
1350 - Debian: mkpasswd no longer installed (dbm files not supported)
1351 - chpasswd checks for shadow/non-shadow at run time, too
1352 - added chpasswd -e (input file with encrypted passwords) - Jay Soffian
1353 - changed libmisc/login_access.c as suggested by Dave Hagewood
1354 - replaced sprintf() with snprintf() in several places
1355 - added lib/snprintf.[ch] (from XFree86) for systems without snprintf()
1356 - minor tweaks in contrib/adduser.c (/usr/local -> /usr)
1357 - non-root users can only run su with a terminal on stdin
1358 - temporarily disabled DES_RPC because getsecretkey() causes login to hang
1359 for 5 minutes on at least one RH 4.0 system. Not sure if this is a bug
1360 in libc, or system misconfiguration. Needs further investigation.
1361 - check for strerror() and -lrpcsvc (should compile on SunOS again)
1362 - fixed free() called twice in libmisc/mail.c
1363 - added information about mirror sites (doc/README.mirrors)
1364 - updated pwconv.8 and pwunconv.8 man pages
1365 - "make install" now installs pwconv, pwunconv, grpconv, grpunconv
1366 - pwauth.8 no longer installed (AUTH_METHODS not supported by default)
1367 - corrected su.1 man page ($SHELL not used)
1368 - no need for --with-md5crypt if the MD5-based crypt() is already in libc
1369 (or another library specified in /etc/ld.so.preload - Linux ld.so 1.8.0+)
1370 - cleaned up PASS_MAX in getpass() (127 always assumed)
1371 - default editor for vipw changed from /bin/ae to a real editor :)
1373 shadow-970601 => shadow-970616
1375 - fixed execlp call (missing NULL) in src/vipw.c
1376 - vipw now preserves permissions on edited files
1377 - commented out the xdm-shadow hack in shadowconfig
1378 - improved RedHat spec file (Timo Karjalainen)
1379 - updated mailing list information
1380 - added information about the shadow paper (doc/README.shadow-paper)
1381 - renamed doc/console.c.spec (confused RPM)
1383 shadow-970502-2 => shadow-970601
1385 - fixed a typo in libmisc/mail.c causing login to segfault
1386 if MAIL_CHECK_ENAB=yes (sorry!)
1387 - patches for OPIE support (Algis Rudys) (untested)
1388 - programs that modify /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow will use
1389 lckpwdf() if available
1390 - now compiles with PAM support! (still untested)
1391 - cosmetic error message changes (prefixed by argv[0]:)
1393 shadow-970216 => shadow-970502-2
1395 - shadow group support fixes (grpconv didn't work - for some
1396 reason, putsgent() returns 1 instead of 0 on success;
1397 now -1 = failure, anything else = success)
1398 - upgraded to autoconf-2.12
1399 - pwconv and pwunconv now follow other UN*X systems and SVID3
1400 (modify files in place), original versions moved to "old"
1401 - scologin.c moved to "old" (it was only for SCO Xenix) so
1402 people stop sending patches for scologin.c gcc warnings :)
1403 - don't use the MD5* functions in libmisc/salt.c (glibc has
1404 the new md5 crypt(), but no <md5.h> and MD5* functions!)
1405 - support for MkLinux, Solaris, JIS, Qmail (Frank Denis)
1406 - "passwd -S -a" now really works
1407 - support for Debian, vipw, a few fixes (Guy Maor)
1408 - src/login.c radius bug fix (Rafal Maszkowski)
1409 - ISSUE_FILE_ENAB -> ISSUE_FILE in the sample /etc/login.defs
1410 - fixes for glibc and DES_RPC (Thorsten Kukuk)
1411 - limits.5 man page (Luca Berra)
1412 - expiry will work setgid shadow too, removed euid 0 check
1413 - added check for a64l() to configure (glibc)
1415 shadow-961025 => shadow-970216
1417 - major rewrite of *io.c (no more 4 copies of almost identical code)
1418 - use fsync() (if available) instead of sync() when updating password files
1419 - use fchmod() and fchown() if available
1420 - keep the NIS "plus on a line by itself" entries at end of passwd/group
1421 - configure checks location of passwd/chfn/chsh programs (/usr/bin or /bin)
1422 - passwd -S -a: list information about all users (root only)
1423 - passwd -k: change only expired passwords
1424 - passwd -q: quiet mode
1425 - first attempt at PAM support in passwd
1426 - passwd updates the non-shadow password if /etc/shadow exists but the
1427 user has no shadow password
1428 - passwd logs who changed the password, added hook to allow non-root
1429 administrators who can change passwords (not implemented yet)
1430 - su sets $HOME even without the "-" option (suggested by Joey Hess)
1431 - added -p (set encrypted password) option to useradd and usermod
1432 (idea from hpux10 - undocumented option used internally by SAM)
1433 - useradd -D -e does the right thing (set default expiration date)
1434 - USERDEL_CMD in login.defs instead of hardcoded {ATRM,CRONTAB}_COMMAND
1435 because there are just too many systems that need different commands
1436 - removed #ifdef FAILLOG_LOCKTIME (now always enabled), warning: the
1437 faillog file format has been changed (somewhere between 960129 and
1438 960810), please truncate the old file (if any) to zero length
1439 - ISSUE_FILE (may be different from /etc/issue) instead of ISSUE_FILE_ENAB
1440 - wtmp, lastlog, faillog file location guessed by configure
1441 - separate checks for invalid user and group names, max username length
1442 based on struct utmp (it's not always 8 characters)
1443 - pwck and grpck now check for invalid user/group names
1444 - pwck -q (quiet, report only serious problems) option added
1445 - separate cleaner sgetpwent() without the NIS magic
1446 - NIS entries ignored (never changed) by *io.c, pwck, grpck
1447 - various code cleanups
1448 - new get_my_pwent() function for getting my own username, uid etc.
1449 - faillog opens the file read-write if possible (even if not root)
1450 - passwd -S allowed for normal users (for their own uid only)
1451 - handle the case of login denied to passwordless accounts better
1452 ("Login incorrect" without "Password:" prompt looks strange)
1453 - corrected author information and removed a copyright restriction
1455 shadow-960925 => shadow-961025
1457 - fixed a few typos in shadow group code
1458 - don't check for names starting with 'r' to determine if the shell
1459 is restricted, use /etc/shells instead (for the "rc" shell)
1460 - removed extra definition of LASTLOG_FILE in configure.in
1461 - expiry no longer segfaults if no /etc/shadow
1462 - userdel -r "can't remove mailbox" warning no longer printed on success
1463 - useradd exit codes changed to match hpux10 man page
1464 - fixed possible fd leak etc. in file locking code (lib/commonio.c)
1466 shadow-960920 => shadow-960925
1468 - bug fixes to the new environment code using malloc
1469 - use hardcoded names instead of basename(argv[0]) for openlog() in programs
1470 that users can run (chage, chfn, chsh, gpasswd, login, newgrp, passwd, su)
1471 - small fix to isexpired(), and use it in passwd as well
1472 - use strftime() and strptime() if available
1473 - added chmod 600 /etc/passwd- at the end of pwconv5 (backup file may
1474 contain encrypted passwords!)
1475 - pass size to change_field (chage, chfn, chsh) instead of assuming BUFSIZ
1476 (nothing bad happened yet, just a cleanup)
1477 - gpasswd should work with both shadow and non-shadow group passwords
1478 - detect unsupported options if no shadow (gpasswd, useradd, usermod)
1479 - passwd -e for sunos4 (ATT_AGE), untested
1480 - read environment from file (ENVIRON_FILE in login.defs), idea from ssh
1481 - small fix to l64a()
1482 - passwd prints a message after password successfully changed (for things
1483 like poppassd which run passwd and expect some output)
1484 - passwd logs if password was changed by root (as opposed to a luser)
1485 - passwd uses current uid if no username argument and getlogin() fails
1487 shadow-960910 => shadow-960920
1489 - use malloc for environment variables, no more MAXENV (Juergen Heinzl)
1490 - newusers should work with both shadow and non-shadow passwords
1491 (still left to do: chpasswd, gpasswd)
1492 - login-static no longer compiled by default
1493 - more SYSLOG() macros
1495 shadow-960810 => shadow-960910
1497 - updated README.linux to point to the new ftp site
1498 - chfn and chsh optionally (CHFN_AUTH) prompt for password like util-linux
1499 - man pages now closer to LDP standards (Ivan Nejgebauer)
1500 - newgrp uses SYSLOG_SG_ENAB (not SU) as in the /etc/login.defs comments
1501 - obscure.c fixed to compile with HAVE_LIBCRACK
1502 - cosmetic message changes in age.c
1503 - utmp open error check fixed in utmp.c
1504 - grpunconv added (Michael Meskes)
1505 - login reports invalid login time, not "Login incorrect" (Ivan Nejgebauer)
1506 - logoutd sets OPOST before writing to the tty (Ivan Nejgebauer)
1507 - sulogin: don't use syslog(), other minor changes (Ivan Nejgebauer)
1508 - passwords can be changed if sp_max == -1 (now considered infinity)
1509 - usermod: don't use sizeof(struct lastlog) when writing to faillog (ugh)
1510 - started replacing lots of #ifdef USE_SYSLOG with cleaner macros
1511 - contrib/rpasswd.c added (Joshua Cowan)
1512 - PASS_MAX is 127 with MD5_CRYPT (not just for Linux - sunos4 too...)
1513 - workarounds for a RedHat NYS libc getspnam() bug (if /etc/shadow
1514 doesn't exist, it succeeds and returns sp_lstchg==0 instead of -1).
1516 shadow-960129 => shadow-960810
1518 - automake, configure checks for libcrypt and libcrack (Janos Farkas)
1519 - added --enable-shadowgrp to configure (shadow groups disabled by default)
1520 - should compile on SunOS 4.1.x - but it does NOT mean that it works :-)
1521 - login sets HUSHLOGIN=TRUE or FALSE (for shell startup scripts etc.)
1522 - hopefully removed all the rcsid warnings
1523 - contrib/atudel perl script to remove at jobs (thanks to Brian Gaeke)
1524 - resource limits (Cristian Gafton)
1525 - workaround for buggy init/getty(?) leaving junk in ut_host on RedHat
1526 - more fixes in man pages
1527 - pwck and grpck no longer suggest to run mkpasswd if *DBM not compiled in
1528 - most programs (groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, grpck, login, passwd, pwck,
1529 su, useradd, userdel, usermod) should now work with both shadow and
1530 non-shadow passwords/groups (check for /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow at
1531 run time); a few programs still left to do
1532 - mailbox mv/chown/rm in usermod/userdel (suggested by Cristian Gafton)
1533 - new contrib/adduser.c from Chris Evans
1534 - lots of other minor changes
1535 - source tree reorganization, GNU autoconf, portability cleanups
1536 - basename() renamed to Basename() to avoid name space confusion
1537 - new programs to create /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow: pwconv5, grpconv
1538 - newgrp cleanup and a few fixes
1539 - useradd uses PASS_MAX_DAYS, PASS_MIN_DAYS and PASS_WARN_AGE
1540 - don't make the first group member the group admin by default
1541 (define FIRST_MEMBER_IS_ADMIN to get the old gpasswd behaviour)
1542 - password aging constants, NGROUPS_MAX and syslog stuff in only one
1543 place (defines.h) instead of repeating it in all source files...
1544 - added userdel -r safety check (refuse to remove the home directory
1545 if it would result in removing some other user's home directory)
1546 - usermod -u now correctly checks for non-unique uid (unless -o)
1547 - sync() after updating password files, just to be more safe
1548 - "make install" should install /etc/login.defs if it doesn't exist
1549 - new option to control what happens if we can't cd to the home directory
1550 (DEFAULT_HOME in /etc/login.defs)
1551 - enter the home directory as the user, not as root (for NFS etc.)
1552 - added check for Slackware bugs (nobody UID -1) in pwck and grpck
1553 - new CONSOLE_GROUPS feature (thanks to pacman@tardis.mars.net), it is
1554 possible to add specified groups (floppy etc.) for console logins
1555 - new faillog feature: lock account for specified (per-user) time since
1556 the last failure after exceeding the failure limit
1557 - new man pages (gpasswd.1, login.access.5, suauth.5)
1558 - fixes in man pages, renamed *.4 to *.5
1559 - new "contrib" directory (two adduser programs)
1560 - changed some "system" to "feature" #ifdefs (autoconf someday...)
1561 - sulogin no longer requires to be run from init, should work from rc
1563 - changes to prevent unshadowing with libc SHADOW_COMPAT (get info
1564 using xx_locate(), modify it and call xx_update(), don't write back
1565 anything returned by getpwnam() etc.)
1566 - stupid bug fixed in lastlog.c
1567 - don't move non-directories in "usermod -m"
1568 - don't log unknown usernames (passwords mistyped for usernames) (lmain.c)
1569 - macros to get around ancient compilers which don't like prototypes
1570 - make more use of "const" (not everywhere yet)
1571 - added #ifdef AUTH_METHODS - very few people use administrator defined
1572 authentication methods because many programs are not aware of them;
1573 not supporting them makes the code simpler
1574 - new "save" and "restore" Makefile targets, thanks to Rafal Maszkowski
1575 - sgetgrent() in libshadow.a is optional, some versions of libc have it,
1576 see HAVE_SGETGRENT in config.h (grent.c)
1577 - don't use continued lines in /etc/group, the standard getgr*() functions
1578 don't support that (grent.c)
1579 - removed the third main() argument (according to libc docs, not allowed by
1580 POSIX.1 - use environ instead) (lmain.c, smain.c, newgrp.c, sulogin.c)
1581 - login access control (lmain.c, login_access.c)
1582 - added copyright notice to login_access.c (from logdaemon-5.0)
1583 - detailed su access control (smain.c, suauth.c) - thanks to Chris Evans
1584 - added closelog() in su before executing the shell (smain.c)
1585 - getting current user name changed (smain.c)
1586 - "x" instead of "*" in pw_passwd, consistent with pwconv (useradd.c)
1587 - getpass() shouldn't return NULL except on errors (getpass.c)
1588 - moved isexpired() to isexpired.c (now part of libshadow.a) from age.c
1589 - SunOS4-like passwd -e (force change on next login) (isexpired.c, passwd.c)
1590 - can use shadow support in new versions of Linux libc instead of libshadow.a,
1591 see HAVE_SHADOWPWD, HAVE_SHADOWGRP in config.h.linux (shadow.c, gshadow.c)
1592 - "no shadow password" not logged, the same /bin/login should work with both
1593 shadow and non-shadow passwords (lmain.c)
1594 - some cleanup in various places (lmain.c, passwd.c)
1595 - new program to verify username/password pairs, for xlock etc.; it is not
1596 installed by default, read the comments first (pwdauth.c)
1597 - authentication programs run with empty environment for safety (pwauth.c)
1598 - added missing fstat error checks (faillog.c, lastlog.c, setup.c, *io.c)
1599 - common code separated from *io.c (commonio.c)
1600 - ownership and permissions on password files are now preserved (we may try
1601 to make more use of setgid and setuid non-root programs in the future)
1602 - added (untested) MD5-based crypt() from FreeBSD (md5crypt.c), see
1603 MD5_CRYPT in config.h.linux and MD5_CRYPT_ENAB in login.defs.linux
1604 - termios/termio/sgtty macros cleaned up a bit
1606 shadow-951218 => shadow-960129
1608 Emergency bug fix release - no new features since 951218. There are many
1609 new changes, but this bug really can't wait until they are tested.
1611 Probably all previous versions of the shadow suite have a serious bug which
1612 makes it possible to overwrite the stack by entering very long username at
1613 the login prompt. This can give root access to any remote user!
1615 Changed the maximum size in login.c from BUFSIZ (1024) to 32 (to match
1616 size of the array in lmain.c). Aaargh!!!
1618 shadow-951203 => shadow-951218
1621 - Linux utmp handling fixes (utmp.c)
1622 - last failure date printing fixes (failure.c)
1623 - minor fix to compile with USE_CRACKLIB (obscure.c)
1624 - eliminated the use of snprintf (env.c, lmain.c, login.c, shell.c, smain.c)
1625 - basename.c added, replacing duplicated code in various places
1626 - "su -" runs the shell with '-' in argv[0] again (smain.c)
1627 - removing at/cron jobs cleaned up (userdel.c)
1628 - /etc/gshadow should not be world-readable (sgroupio.c)
1629 - if fflush() failed, files were not closed (*io.c)
1630 - login prompt is now "hostname login: " on Linux (lmain.c, login.c)
1631 - "save" and "restore" targets commented out (don't work) (Makefile.linux)
1632 - some minor cleanups for gcc -Wall (unused variables etc.)
1633 - removed README.FIRST (copyrights are OK now)
1634 - updated ANNOUNCE, README.linux, WISHLIST
1635 - as suggested, converted to RCS
1637 shadow-3.3.2-951127 => shadow-951203-jfh
1640 - Added the BSD-style copyright to all of the files. Any files with the
1641 old copyright have multiple copyright holders and need to be cleanroomed
1642 to produce BSD-style copyrightable files, or I need to get the consent
1643 of the others to change the copyright.
1644 - Changed the ANNOUNCE file to not refer to the README.FIRST file. Now
1645 that all of the files should have the correct copyright there is no need
1646 to refer to that e-mail message.
1647 - Changes SCCS strings to "%W% %U% %G%". Marek needs to either convert to
1648 RCS or check into SCCS and then checkout. I'd suggest using RCS ;-)
1650 jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
1652 shadow-3.3.2-951106 => shadow-951127
1654 Note: for now this code only supports Linux. All the #ifdef's are there
1655 (and will be; support for at least SunOS 4.1.x would be nice) but:
1656 - I had to fix some potential security problems resulting from sloppy
1657 coding (no bounds checking), and it was easier for me to use snprintf()
1658 (not available on many systems, unfortunately), I'll fix that later.
1659 Old versions of Linux libc don't have snprintf() either, and the one
1660 in libbsd.a ignores the max size - don't use it! (libc-4.6.27 is OK)
1661 - I am lazy and only updated Makefile.linux and config.h.linux this time
1662 - I don't have root access to non-Linux systems (this means no testing)
1663 - this code needs some major reorganization, which will (hopefully)
1667 - some code cleanup, prototypes.h, defines.h, Makefile and config.h changes
1668 - login can be statically linked (not that I think it's a good idea, better
1669 fix the telnetd, but paranoid people will like it :-)
1670 - login is installed non-setuid by default
1671 - check for NULL from getpass()
1672 - wipe cleartext password from getpass() when no longer needed (pwauth.c)
1673 - use standard "Password: " prompt by default (pwauth.c)
1674 - hopefully fixed bogus sigaction() stuff (Linux only) (getpass.c)
1675 - oops, setrlimit wants bytes, ulimit wants 512-byte units (lmain.c)
1676 - Linux has <lastlog.h>
1677 - print ll_host on Linux too (lmain.c)
1678 - size checking in various places (setuid root programs, argh!)
1679 - preserve TERM from getty (lmain.c)
1680 - don't ignore SIGHUP (lmain.c)
1681 - :%s/setenv/set_env/g (setenv(3) conflict) (env.c, lmain.c, login.c)
1682 - remove LD_xxx (env.c)
1683 - use bzero() instead of memset() for BSD portability and less #ifdef's
1684 (if the system has no bzero(), implement it as a macro using memset())
1685 - the above fixes wrong order of memset() parameters (log.c)
1686 - use getutent/pututline instead of doing it by hand (utmp.c)
1687 - added the new settings to login.defs.linux
1688 - added login_access.c to the distribution (not used yet)
1692 shadow-3.3.2 => shadow-3.3.2-951106
1694 - added dummy pad.c and #ifdef'ed out references to pad_auth (pwauth.c)
1695 - malloc/strdup error checking, hopefully no more core dumps...
1696 - define HAVE_RLIMIT instead of HAVE_ULIMIT for Linux (config.h.linux)
1697 - changed pathnames on Linux to conform to new FSSTND (/var/log etc.)
1698 - larger buffer for cipher, for md5 crypt() if and when (encrypt.c, passwd.c)
1699 - use POSIX termios whenever possible on Linux
1700 - list.c, removed add_list/del_list from gpmain.c, user{add,del,mod}.c
1701 - strtoday.c, removed duplicates from chage.c, useradd.c, usermod.c
1702 - login -h only for root (lmain.c)
1703 - login -r not needed for Linux (lmain.c)
1704 - sample login.defs modified for Linux (login.defs.linux)
1705 - swapped chfn USAGE and ADMUSAGE (chfn.c)
1706 - added -u to passwd usage (passwd.c)
1707 - no #! check necessary for Linux (shell.c)
1708 - define OLD_CRON for some old incompatible Linux distributions (userdel.c)
1709 - PASS_MAX is now 127 (not 8) for Linux (getpass.c)
1710 - LOGIN_RETRIES, LOGIN_TIMEOUT, PASS_CHANGE_TRIES are no longer compiled in,
1711 can now be set in login.defs, old values are used as defaults (lmain.c)
1712 - unique uid/gid selection now more robust (useradd.c, groupadd.c)
1713 - UID_MIN, UID_MAX, GID_MIN, GID_MAX in login.defs (useradd.c, groupadd.c)
1714 - CRACKLIB_DICTPATH no longer compiled in, can be set in login.defs (passwd.c)
1715 - PASS_ALWAYS_WARN: warn about weak passwords even for root (passwd.c)
1716 - PASS_MAX_LEN, check truncated passwords again (obscure.c)
1717 - check for weak passwords too if previous password was empty (obscure.c)
1718 - CHFN_RESTRICT: don't let users change their full names (chfn.c)
1719 - Linux has getusershell(), use it (chsh.c)
1720 - check if the new shell is executable by the user (chsh.c)
1721 - sleep before printing "Login incorrect", not the other way around (lmain.c)
1722 - don't be picky about utmp only if any of -rfh flags given (lmain.c)
1723 - do "wheel group" more like BSD does (smain.c)
1724 - use getlogin() in su (smain.c)
1725 - UMASK from login.defs defaults to 077, not 0 (lmain.c, newusers.c)
1726 - #undef HAS_ATRM for Linux until atrm can do what we need (config.h.linux)
1727 - Linux has most commands in /usr/bin, not /bin (age.c, passwd.c, userdel.c)
1728 - ULIMIT from login.defs works on systems using setrlimit() too (lmain.c)
1729 - LOGIN_STRING should work now (pwauth.c, getdef.c)
1730 - kludge to avoid conflict with Linux <shadow.h> (gshadow.h)
1731 - mv Makefile Makefile.xenix ; mv config.h config.h.xenix - so that they are
1732 not lost when you copy the right ones to Makefile and config.h
1738 Original version, received directly from the author.