Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to update the passwords. This fixes

http://bugs.debian.org/396726.  Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2ad14fc44c2e38b421a3c24f6675d2b15ee2ecf6..f93bc50e7307fe99b417edc720dbfc48550c986f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+
+       * man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to
+       update the passwords. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/396726.
+       Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
+
 2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 
        * NEWS, src/su.c: Avoid terminating the PAM library in the forked

diff --git a/man/chpasswd.8.xml b/man/chpasswd.8.xml
index 9fad52f6408ec5dbdeb1c46e711e8d8317c65423..f3eafb7edadaa1e7057aa275855292598f0225ea 100644 (file)
--- a/man/chpasswd.8.xml
+++ b/man/chpasswd.8.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
       Remember to set permissions or umask to prevent readability of
       unencrypted files by other users.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      <command>chpasswd</command> does not use PAM to update the passwords.
+      Thus, It only updates the passwords from the
+      <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>
+      databases, and does not support the various checks provided by PAM
+      modules.
+    </para>
   </refsect1>
 
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