Re: nfo: prepare for release 4.0.16
Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:30:46 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general |
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| Organization | wh0rd.org |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 15:37, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > - by default do not use libshadow_getpass() as getpass() replacemement. > Use libshadow_getpass() only when S/KEY support is enabled. > Current glibc getpass() handles correctly longer than 8 characters > passwords and libshadow_getpass() is used only because libc getpass() > do not handles password prompting with echo enabled, perhaps update the login.defs comments for GETPASS_ASTERISKS to note that it only applies when skey support is enabled ? if you build shadow with skey disabled but you change that value in login.defs, you get a nice warning now where there was none before :) configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify administrator) -mike
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