Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I read with my eyes, not by hand :) Every time I was presented with a > notice which required my attention and some sort of input or keypress to > continue I read it thoroughly. If it indicated some action that needed to > be taken, such as manual reconfiguration of stuff

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

On 00-09-29 Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake Christian Kurz on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 03:43:49PM CDT > > > My original post specified Debian 2.2. The numerals got stripped > > > somewhere along the way. Sorry if the usage on this field was out > > > of spec. I wasn't sure what to specify since

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

Thus spake Christian Kurz on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:54:57AM CDT > > > follow this format for non-specific problem reporting then it should be > > explained on . It's not. > > And where's there written that you should use the package unknown if you > had pro

Re: Bug#72738: Summary

Christian Kurz and I apparently have a fundamental disagreement on issues relating to the bug report I submitted. I am going to try to summarize my position in the form of a number of suggestions. Please, think about what I say here. For all the heat and disagreement between Christian and I, he

Bug#72863: newscache writes passwords to syslog

Package: newscache Version: 0.99.17-1 When I use newscache to connect to remote news servers which require authentication, newscache writes the passwords to syslog so that every local user who has read access to syslog can read them. I suggest to add an option "pwlog" (or so) for the newscache.c

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

Joey, thanks for taking the time to do this!! Thus spake Joey Hess on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:18:36AM CDT > > Here's my experiment: > > It looks like I need to make some changes to your system. Without those > changes some packages might not work correctly. The list of changes are > listed above

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > If you didn't see that, it wasn't base-passwd that did this. If you did see > > it, it should be in your log file, right? > > Don't I wish! I went through the system logs and there was nothing, and > update-passwd doesn't mention anything about logging on its man page.