For the record... While investigating the (currently) shipped /etc/login.defs default settings and comparing the relevant fields to the builtin defaults in the util-linux counterparts I noticed the following differences:
# CHFN_RESTRICT - /etc/login.defs contains "rwh" by default. (In util-linux "yes" is also an alias for "rwh".) In util-linux all fields are restricted and this is documented. Action: I suspect we can live with this difference by just writing about it in NEWS.Debian on upgrade. # ENV_PATH - /etc/login.defs and util-linux builtin default is same except: /etc/login.defs has '/usr/local/games:/usr/games' appended. Action: check if util-linux upstream is willing to add these extra directories to the builtin default. My general feeling is that we can likely get away with not shipping any /etc/login.defs file at all if we want (or ship one with just commented out examples). Regards, Andreas Henriksson
