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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Sam James <sam@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, pr@g.o, toolchain@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] 2021-06-30-libxcrypt-migration: mention PAM/md5crypt issues
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:57:55
Message-Id: ur1fshi6p@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] 2021-06-30-libxcrypt-migration: mention PAM/md5crypt issues by Sam James
1 >>>>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Sam James wrote:
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3 > -Revision: 1
4 > +Revision: 2
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6 Is this supposed to be read again by users? Then it should be a new news
7 item (with updated date in filename) and the old item should be deleted.
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9 > +Please note that if you last changed your password before ~2008,
10 > +it may using md5crypt or similar other weak mechanisms in /etc/shadow;
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12 This should be "may be using" or "may use" I think.
13
14 s/similar other/similar/
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16 > +a bug in PAM [0][1] may mean that you were unable to login. We recommend
17 > +using `passwd` to change/refresh your passwrd so it is using modern
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19 s/passwrd/password/
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21 Also, this is read as plain text, so maybe use double quotes instead of
22 accents graves.
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24 > +methods. A new version of PAM has been added to the tree to resolve this issue.

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