[Bug 989] add chage command

[email protected] Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:13:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.specification
Message-ID <[email protected]>


------- Additional Comments From [email protected]  2005-06-13 03:13 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> chage is part of shadow-utils.
> 
> NOTE that the futures tracker says that this fails best-practice, "For
> application developers, PAM is a much better way of authenticating. Several
> standards bodies have passed over shadow. It still is definitely used on most
> Linux platforms, but doesn't belong in a development standard."

Is shadow specified in the LSB? If not, most of the PAM tests will not work,
since they use features which are not available with plain passwd (like password
and account expiration).   
 
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