Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (If I sound sarcastic, that is exactly what I am. Check the facts
> before you come with arguments, even if this is 'debian-mentors',
> where people might not be so experienced. I am fully aware that this
> is in true a bug in the program!)
Please don't flame people who report *major* SNAFU's in your program.
You entirely missed Jim's point. /etc/shadow is owned by another
package, therefore you should not be mucking with it. There are
provided interfaces to /etc/shadow, kindly use them (or show why you
can not).
Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The fix is simple:
> > chown("/etc/shadow", "root", "group");
>
> Somehow I feel this code might not do proper locking
> etc. Don't trust a multi-thousand user system on it..
Quite. Personally I wouldn't trust it on any system, especially if
this is the author's attitude.
--
James
~Yawn And Walk North~
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