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clarify chage manual page in regards to shadow and passwd inconsistency (#1686440)

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Tomas Mraz 2019-03-22 13:24:42 +01:00
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shadow-4.3.1-manfix.patch
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@ -54,6 +54,25 @@ Index: shadow-4.5/man/chage.1.xml
Passing the number <emphasis remap='I'>-1</emphasis> as the Passing the number <emphasis remap='I'>-1</emphasis> as the
<replaceable>EXPIRE_DATE</replaceable> will remove an account <replaceable>EXPIRE_DATE</replaceable> will remove an account
expiration date. expiration date.
@@ -233,6 +243,18 @@
The <command>chage</command> program requires a shadow password file to
be available.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The chage program will report only the information from the shadow
+ password file. This implies that configuration from other sources
+ (e.g. LDAP or empty password hash field from the passwd file) that
+ affect the user's login will not be shown in the chage output.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>chage</command> program will also not report any
+ inconsistency between the shadow and passwd files (e.g. missing x in
+ the passwd file). The <command>pwck</command> can be used to check
+ for this kind of inconsistencies.
+ </para>
<para>The <command>chage</command> command is restricted to the root
user, except for the <option>-l</option> option, which may be used by
an unprivileged user to determine when their password or account is due
Index: shadow-4.5/man/ja/man5/login.defs.5 Index: shadow-4.5/man/ja/man5/login.defs.5
=================================================================== ===================================================================
--- shadow-4.5.orig/man/ja/man5/login.defs.5 --- shadow-4.5.orig/man/ja/man5/login.defs.5

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shadow-utils.spec
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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
Name: shadow-utils Name: shadow-utils
Version: 4.6 Version: 4.6
Release: 10%{?dist} Release: 11%{?dist}
Epoch: 2 Epoch: 2
URL: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/ URL: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/
Source0: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/download/%{version}/shadow-%{version}.tar.xz Source0: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/releases/download/%{version}/shadow-%{version}.tar.xz
@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ done
%{_mandir}/man8/vigr.8* %{_mandir}/man8/vigr.8*
%changelog %changelog
* Fri Mar 22 2019 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2:4.6-11
- clarify chage manual page in regards to shadow and passwd
inconsistency (#1686440)
* Thu Mar 21 2019 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2:4.6-10 * Thu Mar 21 2019 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2:4.6-10
- Ignore LOGIN_PLAIN_PROMPT variable in login.defs - Ignore LOGIN_PLAIN_PROMPT variable in login.defs