[BusyBox] passwd still tries to update /etc/shadow when CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS is disabled?

Felipe Kellermann stdfk at terra.com.br
Sun Oct 10 21:23:05 UTC 2004


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:49am  -0400, john cooper wrote:

> It seems loginutils/passwd.c:update_passwd() has it's own notion
> of whether to use /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.  Namely even if
> CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS is not set, update_passwd() will
> modify /etc/shadow if it found to be accessible.  Is this an
> known issue?

Hi John,
Yes, this issue was recently fixed in CVS.

-- 
Felipe Kellermann



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