Info: prepare for release 4.0.13

Release shadow 4.0.13 is sheduled to monday 03-10-2005.

As usual last week before release is only for critical bugs and update/new
translations.

Few word about some (not all) 4.0.14 plans:

- merge sg to newgrp 
  sg it is now symlink to newgrp and sg functionality is handled basing
  on argv. Merge this allow make this simpler.

- remove -f, -g and -s options from passwd
  This options runs chfn, chsh and gpasswd and nothing more.

- remove sulogin
  It is problematic maintain in single tree 
  proggrams which performs authentications using PAM orn not and program 
  like sulogin which must allways perform authentication against local 
  database.

Comments ?


Current list of changes:

shadow-4.0.12 -> shadow-4.0.13                                  03-10-2005

*** general:
- login: use "%c" in strftime() output (based on patch from
  http://bugs.debian.org/89902 by Christian Perrier <[email protected]>),
- fixedlib/commonio.c: don't assume selinux is enabled if is_selinux_enabled()
  returns -1 (merge isSelinuxEnabled FC patch by Jeremy Katz <[email protected]>),
- login, su (non-PAM case): fixed setup max address space limits (added missing break
  statement in case) spoted by Lasse Collin <[email protected]>,
- auditing support added. Patch prepared by Peter Vrabec
  <[email protected]> basing on work by Steve Grubb from
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159215 Now auditing
  support have commands: chage, gpasswd, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod,
  useradd, userdel, usermod.
- chage, chfn, chsh, passwd: change to use new selinux API for
  selinux_check_passwd_access() (patch from Fedora by Dan Walsh <[email protected]>),
- use #ident preprocesor directive istead RCID macro with content similar
  to example described in ident(1) man page (modern compilers like latest GCC
  removes not used functions by global optimization).
  So "ident /usr/bin/passwd" will show again some useable informations
- su: fixed twice copy enviroment which causes auth problems
  (bug was introduced in 4.0.12; fix by Nicolas François <[email protected]>),
- chage: differentiate the different failure causes by the exit value
  This will permit to adduser Debian script to detect if chage failed because the
  system doesn't have shadowed passwords (fix for http://bugs.debian.org/317012),
- merge 010_more-i18ned-messages Debian patch which adds i18n support for few
  more messages (orginaly patch was prepared by Guillem Jover <[email protected]>),
- lastlog: added handle -b option which allow print only lastlog records older than
  specified DAYS (fix by <[email protected]>),
- 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 <[email protected]>),
- passwd: rewrited 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
  Fixed Debian http://bugs.debian.org/314727
- updated translations: fr, pt, ro, ru.
*** documentation:
- passwd(5): rewrited based on work by Greg Wooledge <[email protected]>
  http://bugs.debian.org/328113
- login(1): added securetty(5) to SEE ALSO section
  (fixed Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/325773),
- groupadd(8), useradd(8): fix regular expression describing alloved login/group
  names (pointed by Nicolas François <[email protected]>)
  (correct is [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]),
- groupadd(8), useradd(8): documents in CAVEATS section the limitations shadow
  places on user and group names (fix by Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>).
- chage(1), groupadd(8): document -h,--help option.

and translations statistics:

language  translated  fuzzy  untranslated
-----------------------------------------
  bs          41       12      330
  ca         354       13       16
  cs         365        6       12
  da         357       12       14
  de         365        6       12
  el         317       35       31
  es         357       12       14
  eu         346       19       18
  fi         365        6       12
  fr         383
  he          87       23      273
  id         242       27      114
  it         346       19       18
  ja         274       68       41
  ko         346       19       18
  nb         328       28       27
  nl         365        6       12
  nn         329       27       27
  pl         371        5        7
  pt         383
  pt_BR      329       28       26
  ro         377        6
  ru         367        5       11
  sk         365        6       12
  sq           7        4      372
  sv         356       13       14
  tl         319       40       24
  tr         329       28       26
  uk         346       19       18
  vi         346       19       18
  zh_CN      328       28       27
  zh_TW      346       20       17
-----------------------------------------

Big thanks for all reports and patches.

kloczek

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