On 10/25/2012 02:36 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Manolo Martínez > <manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. >> This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I >> have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight (to clueless users such as >> me). Could anyone provide a summary of what we should change in our >> current /etc/shadow? > > Without the diff of the old and the new /etc/shadow I'm not sure > exactly what you are asking. > > Have a look in "man 5 shadow", this should hopefully explain what the > difference between the two files are. > > Unless something has gone wrong, you should be able to either ignore > or merge the change and it should not make a difference, the reason > /etc/shadow was changed was so that it would be in the correct state > on a fresh install, for existing installs it should not matter. > > -t > The change was with "uuidd". You can view changes like this here [1]. Also, as a general tip, I go through shadow, passwd, group, and gshadow occasionally and make sure all of the groups/users from filesystem are first, then all of the lines I've added, and finally all of the lines that were added by package install files. [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk/shadow?h=packages/filesystem
