Re: nfo: prepare for release 4.0.16

On Thursday 08 June 2006 00:20, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 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)
>
> This is intentional.
> I'm not touching login.defs man page because it need major rewrite. If you
> want fill free do this :)

i was referring to the login.defs file itself, not the man page ...
-mike

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