[Adduser-devel] Bug#330743: cups-pdf: No longer installable when
not using shadow passwords.
Steve Langasek
vorlon at debian.org
Fri Sep 30 02:51:18 UTC 2005
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:35:07PM +1200, James Sleeman wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > that would be one thing; but I don't see any reason why Debian should be
> > expected to support passwd-only systems.
> When I installed this debian system, many years ago it must be said, I
> was given the OPTION of using shadow passwords if I wished to do so, at
> the time (and mostly presently) I wished not to do so, for my own
> reasons. If Debian still gives that as an OPTION then packages
> shouldn't really expect that OPTION being chosen, unless there is a way
> that packages can specify a dependancy on shadow passwords so that they
> won't even attempt to install without them, then I think that Debian
> packages must not simply break when people do not pick the OPTION in the
> install process.
> Of course, as I say, it's been a long time since I've done a debian
> install, so maybe shadow is no longer optional but a requirement. In
> that case, fine.
Yes, it's no longer an option. We should of course still support an upgrade
path for systems whose admins opted not to use shadow passwords, but I think
we should do that by auto-converting to shadow rather than supporting the
limited semantics of shadowless systems.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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