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From: dams <dams@×××.fr>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] move shadow's passwd to / from /usr
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:11:51
Message-Id: 4163A860.2090006@idm.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] move shadow's passwd to / from /usr by Mike Frysinger
1 I like the idea. I don't see the benefit for having it in /usr/bin, and
2 when you boot in rescue mode or with init=/bin/sh, having passwd in /bin
3 is really useful
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6 dams
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9 Mike Frysinger wrote:
10 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64441
11 >
12 > the question is, should we move passwd to /bin/ from /usr/bin/ ? it would
13 > help when trying to fix a lost root's password ...
14 >
15 > FHS has nothing to say about it, and our policy on / is to only utilize things
16 > that 'aid in system recovery', and i think this falls under that category
17 > (bum fsck on / requires you to enter the root password for example in order
18 > to login and fix)
19 >
20 > if no one has any interesting input, i'll go ahead with the change
21 > -mike
22 >
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