From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VmmRK-0006oB-Vg for ptxdist@pengutronix.de; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:26:58 +0100 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VmmRI-0006Ti-V6 for ptxdist@pengutronix.de; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:26:36 +0100 Received: from ppp-46-244-217-136.dynamic.mnet-online.de ([46.244.217.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:26:36 +0100 Received: from felix.mellmann by ppp-46-244-217-136.dynamic.mnet-online.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:26:36 +0100 From: Felix Mellmann Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5299F9F2.1060804@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Why was shadow support disabled for sudo? Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Marc Kleine-Budde writes: > > It's probably a bug, please send a patch. > > cheers, > Marc I was just wondering, if there is still a reason to disable shadow support. Obviously it was at some time intended ... Without shadow support sudo does not accept any password stored in /etc/shadow (as usual). Regards, Felix diff -urdN ptxdist-2013.09.0.orig/rules/sudo.make ptxdist- 2013.09.0/rules/sudo.make --- ptxdist-2013.09.0.orig/rules/sudo.make 2013-09-09 15:59:23.000000000 +0200 +++ ptxdist-2013.09.0/rules/sudo.make 2013-11-30 16:23:42.320182693 +0100 @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ # SUDO_AUTOCONF = \ $(CROSS_AUTOCONF_USR) \ - --disable-shadow \ --enable-root-sudo \ --disable-log-host \ --enable-noargs-shell \ -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de