[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1052 - trunk/debian

Nicolas FRANCOIS nekral-guest at costa.debian.org
Sun Jul 16 09:46:39 UTC 2006


Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2006-07-16 09:46:37 +0000 (Sun, 16 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 1052

Modified:
   trunk/debian/changelog
   trunk/debian/login.defs
Log:
login.defs: do not mention GETPASS_ASTERISKS since it is no more used.
Thanks to Mike Frysinger for noticing it.


Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2006-07-14 12:12:03 UTC (rev 1051)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2006-07-16 09:46:37 UTC (rev 1052)
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+shadow (1:4.0.17-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The "Selles sur Cher" release
+  * Debian packaging fixes:
+    - login.defs: do not mention GETPASS_ASTERISKS since it is no more used.
+      Thanks to Mike Frysinger for noticing it.
+
+ -- Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>  Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:41:24 +0200
+
 shadow (1:4.0.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * The "La Marseillaise 2006" release

Modified: trunk/debian/login.defs
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/login.defs	2006-07-14 12:12:03 UTC (rev 1051)
+++ trunk/debian/login.defs	2006-07-16 09:46:37 UTC (rev 1052)
@@ -218,27 +218,6 @@
 #USERDEL_CMD	/usr/sbin/userdel_local
 
 #
-# When prompting for password without echo, getpass() can optionally
-# display a random number (in the range 1 to GETPASS_ASTERISKS) of '*'
-# characters for each character typed.  This feature is designed to
-# confuse people looking over your shoulder when you enter a password :-).
-# Also, the new getpass() accepts both Backspace (8) and Delete (127)
-# keys to delete previous character (to cope with different terminal
-# types), Control-U to delete all characters, and beeps when there are
-# no more characters to delete, or too many characters entered.
-#
-# Setting GETPASS_ASTERISKS to 1 results in more traditional behaviour -
-# exactly one '*' displayed for each character typed.
-#
-# Setting GETPASS_ASTERISKS to 0 disables the '*' characters (Backspace,
-# Delete, Control-U and beep continue to work as described above).
-#
-# Setting GETPASS_ASTERISKS to -1 reverts to the traditional getpass()
-# without any new features.  This is the default.
-#
-#GETPASS_ASTERISKS 1
-
-#
 # This enables userdel to remove user groups if no members exist.
 #
 # Other former uses of this variable such as setting the umask when




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