On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:44:41 -0600 Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 While merging *.pacnew files is important, I would suggest not to mess with shadow files manually. They contain user/group info, and the missing/extraneous users/groups should be either dealt with via {user,group}add and {user,group}del or via pacman install scripts (which call the above utils anyway, like it was done in the case of uuidd). -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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