http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198920)
- passwd, useradd, usermod: fixed inactive/mindays/warndays/maxdays overflow
(simillar to RH#198920),
-- groupmems: rewrited for use PAM and getopt_long() and now it is enabled
+- groupmems: rewritten for use PAM and getopt_long() and now it is enabled
for build and install (patch by George Kraft <gk4@swbell.net>),
- S/Key: removed assign getpass() to libshadow_getpass() on autoconf level
(patch by Ulrich Mueller <ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de>; http://bugs.gentoo.org/139966),
- usermod: back to previous -a option semantics and clarify -a behavior
on documentation level (by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>),
-- chsh, groupmod: rewrited for use getopt_long().
+- chsh, groupmod: rewritten for use getopt_long().
- updated translations: ca, cs, da, eu, fr, gl, hu, ko, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, uk, vi.
*** documentation:
- fr and ru man pages are up to date,
passwords and libshadow_getpass() is used only because libc getpass()
do not handles password prompting with echo enabled,
- move login.defs::MD5_CRYPT_ENAB to non-PAM part,
-- userdel: rewrited for use getopt_log(),
+- userdel: rewritten for use getopt_log(),
- install default/template configuration files:
-- if shadow is configured with use PAM install /etc/pam.d/* files,
-- if shadow do not uses PAM install /etc/{limits,login.acces} files,
- userdel: make the -f option force the removal of the user's group (even if it
is the primary group of another user)
(merge 453_userdel_-f_removes_group Debian patch),
-- usermod: rewrited for use getopt_long() (Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
+- usermod: rewritten for use getopt_long() (Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
- grpck: fixed segmentation fault on using -s when /etc/gshadow is empty (fix by
Tomasz Lemiech <szpajder@staszic.waw.pl>),
- passwd: remove handle -f, -g and -s options.
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>)
- su: export $USER and $SHELL as well as $HOME (http://bugs.debian.org/11003 and
http://bugs.debian.org/11189),
-- su, vipw: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
+- su, vipw: rewritten for use getopt_long(),
- su: log successful/failed through syslog (http://bugs.debian.org/190215),
- updated translations: ca, cs, da, eu, fi, fr, it, pl, pt, ru, sv, tl, vi,
- new translations: gl.
specified DAYS (fix by <miles@lubin.us>),
- chpasswd, gpasswd, newusers: fixed libmisc/salt.c for use login.defs::MD5_CRYPT_ENAB
only if PAM support is disabled (fix by John Gatewood Ham <zappaman@buraphalinux.org>),
-- passwd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
+- passwd: rewritten for use getopt_long(),
- newgrp: when newgrp process sits between parent and child shells, it should
propagate STOPs from child to parent and CONTs from parent to child,
otherwise e.g. bash's "suspend" command won't work
- chsh(1), groupadd(8), newusers(8), pwconv(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8):
added missing references to /etc/login.defs and login.defs(5)
(Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org>),
-- passwd(5): rewrited based on work by Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
+- passwd(5): rewritten based on work by Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
http://bugs.debian.org/328113
- login(1): added securetty(5) to SEE ALSO section
(fixed Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/325773),
added require ngettext (added [need-ngettext] to AM_GNU_GETTEXT() parameters)
and stub prototype for ngettext() in lib/prototypes.h (necessary if shadow
compiled with disabled NLS support)
-- groupadd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
+- groupadd: rewritten for use getopt_long(),
- groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, userdel: do OPENLOG() before pam_start(),
- groupadd: fixed double OPENLOG(),
- removed lib/{grpack,gspack,pwpack,sppack}.c and prototypes from lib/prototypes.h
- su: ignore SIGINT while authenticating. A ^C could defeat the waiting period and
permit brute-force attacks. Also ignore SIGQUIT.
Fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/52372 and http://bugs.debian.org/288827
-- useradd: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
+- useradd: rewritten for use getopt_long(),
- newgrp: add fix for handle splitted NIS groups: extends the functionality that,
if the requested group is given, all groups of the same GID are tested for
membership of the requesting user.
- updated translations: cs, da, de, es, fi, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk.
*** documentation:
- pwck(8): document -q option (based on Debian patch for fix http://bugs.debian.org/309408)
-- pwck(8): rewrited OPTIONS section and better SYNOPSIS,
+- pwck(8): rewritten OPTIONS section and better SYNOPSIS,
- lastlog(8): document that lastlog is a sparse file, and don't need to be rotated
http://bugs.debian.org/219321
- login(8): better explain the respective roles of login, init and getty with regards
when it should have used pam_user) http://bugs.debian.org/47819
- remove using SHADOWPWD #define so now shadow is always built with shadow
password support,
-- chage: rewrited for use getopt_long(),
+- chage: rewritten for use getopt_long(),
- updated translations: ca, cs, da, fi, pl, ru, zh_TW.
*** documentation:
- most of the man pages now are generated from XML files so in case submiting any
- drop never finished kerberos and des_rpc support (for kerberos support back firs
must be prepared modularization),
- fixed UTMP path detection (by Kelledin <kelledin@users.sf.net>),
-- useradd: rewrited group count to dynamic (by John Newbigin
+- useradd: rewritten group count to dynamic (by John Newbigin
<jnewbigin@ict.swin.edu.au>),
- login: fixed create lastlog entry fo users never loged in on non-PAM
variant of login (fix by <oracular@ziplip.com>),
- newgrp(1): fix #251926, #166173, #113191 Debian bugs: explain why editing /etc/group
(without gshadow) doesn't permit to use newgrp,
- newgrp(1): newgrp uses /bin/sh (not bash),
-- faillog(8): updated after rewrited faillog command for use getopt_long(),
+- faillog(8): updated after rewritten faillog command for use getopt_long(),
- login(1): removed fragment about abilities pass enviroment variables in login prompt,
- gshadow(5): new file (by Nicolas Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>),
- usermod(8): fixed #302388 Debian bug: added separated -o option description,
-- use fseeko() instead fseek() and remove casting file offsets to unsigned
long.
- lastlog:
--- rewrited source code using the same style as in chpasswd.c,
+-- rewritten source code using the same style as in chpasswd.c,
-- open lastlog file after finish parse commandline options
(now --help output can be displayed for users without lastlog
file read permission),
- chpasswd:
-- switch chpasswd to use getopt_long() and adds a --md5 option
(by Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>),
--- rewrited chpasswd(8) man page.
+-- rewritten chpasswd(8) man page.
shadow-4.0.5 -> shadow-4.0.6 08-11-2004
shadow-20000902 => shadow-20001012
-- removed /redhat directory with obsoleted files (partially rewrited spec
+- removed /redhat directory with obsoleted files (partially rewritten spec
file is now in root directory),
- applied shadow-19990827-group.patch patch from RH wich prevents adduser
overwrite previously existing groups in adduser,