On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:38:40PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > I don't think that deprecation is really appropriate--the system > interface, NSS and /etc/gshadow are not really the purview of > util-linux, though tools using the interfaces certainly are. Well, gpasswd uses /etc/gshadow, what else? > newgrp(1) is specified by POSIX/SUS, so I think this is worth > retaining for compatibility reasons. Making it use NSS would be > a good improvement though, since it's currently limited to flat > files. I'm talking about group paswords. I don't see a problem to support newgrp(1) as a way how to switch groups, but the question is if we really need to support the passwords. BTW, posix: There is no convenient way to enter a password into the group database. Use of group passwords is not encouraged, because by their very nature they encourage poor security practices. Group passwords may disappear in the future. -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
