commands from shadow package

[Harald Becker]

Hi!

I'm just thinking about removing the shadow package from my desktop
system and replacing it with busybox ...

/bin/groups -> like: id -Gn (provide a script wrapper?)
/bin/login -> already in busybox
/bin/passwd -> already in busybox
/bin/su -> already in busybox
/sbin/nologin -> like: echo "Not available."; sleep 3s; exit 1 (provide
a script wrapper?)
/usr/bin/chage -> missing
/usr/bin/chfn -> missing
/usr/bin/chsh -> missing
/usr/bin/expiry -> missing, required?
/usr/bin/gpasswd -> missing (required!)
/usr/bin/newgrp -> missing (required!)
/usr/bin/passwd -> already in busybox
/usr/bin/sg -> missing (required!)
/usr/sbin/chgpasswd -> missing, like chpasswd
/usr/sbin/chpasswd -> already in busybox
/usr/sbin/groupadd -> busybox has addgroup
/usr/sbin/groupdel -> busybox has delgroup
/usr/sbin/groupmems -> missing, required?
/usr/sbin/groupmod -> missing, required?
/usr/sbin/grpck -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/grpconv -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/grpunconv -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/logoutd -> not required
/usr/sbin/newusers -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/pwck -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/pwconv -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/pwunconv -> not required or external program like awk script (?)
/usr/sbin/useradd -> busybox has adduser
/usr/sbin/userdel -> busybox has deluser
/usr/sbin/usermod -> missing, required?

... so there is a large list of missing commands in busybox. Has anybody
considered yet about those or is there anything wrong with using busybox
instead of the shadow package on a (small or thin) desktop system?

At least gpasswd, newgrp and sg are commands that I consider to be
required. gpasswd is like passwd, could possibly share code with it.
newgrp needs to be implemented as a shell builtin.

If there is interest, I can contribute and throw in some work on those
and possibly the other login utilities, if they need any further work or
cleanup.

Comments requested.

Harald