Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 13:22:30 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 4 2007 00:11, Karel Zak wrote:
>> newgrp:
>> add support for /etc/gshadow
>> check result from getgrnam() more carefully
>
> Hm, gshadow looks like it is really obsolete. (There is no such file anymore in
> suse releases since a long while. Previously, gshadow was filled with all the
> groups that existed.)
>

gshadow is used when you have groups which have passwords, which is very
rare in practice but permitted in theory.

-hpa
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