Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: 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 21:25:16
Message-Id: 7E3F96EB-92C3-423E-B3F3-EA41357BB8D1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] 2021-06-30-libxcrypt-migration: mention PAM/md5crypt issues by Ulrich Mueller
1 > On 20 Jul 2021, at 20:57, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 >>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Sam James wrote:
4 >
5 >> -Revision: 1
6 >> +Revision: 2
7 >
8 > Is this supposed to be read again by users? Then it should be a new news
9 > item (with updated date in filename) and the old item should be deleted.
10
11 Sure, I'll do that.
12 >
13 >> +Please note that if you last changed your password before ~2008,
14 >> +it may using md5crypt or similar other weak mechanisms in /etc/shadow;
15 >
16 > This should be "may be using" or "may use" I think.
17 >
18 > s/similar other/similar/
19
20 Thanks!
21
22 >
23 >> +a bug in PAM [0][1] may mean that you were unable to login. We recommend
24 >> +using `passwd` to change/refresh your passwrd so it is using modern
25 >
26 > s/passwrd/password/
27 >
28 > Also, this is read as plain text, so maybe use double quotes instead of
29 > accents graves.
30
31 Sure.
32
33 >
34 >> +methods. A new version of PAM has been added to the tree to resolve this issue.
35
36 Cheers for the review,
37 sam

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