Urgent.News

the world's headlines, one feed

Tech

[$] Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features

The shadow-utils project provides the tools that handle /etc/shadow , /etc/passwd , and other related databases; in general, manages users and groups on many Linux systems. While most software releases are notable for what is added, the recent shadow-utils 4.20.0 release is most noteworthy for what has been removed. Specifically, several utilities and functionality related to periodic password…

We haven't written up this one. LWN has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at lwn.net →

More in Tech