Package shadow-utils: Information

    Binary package: shadow-utils
    Version: 4.5-alt5
    Architecture: armh
    Build time:  Jun 11, 2020, 12:29 PM
    Source package: shadow
    Category: System/Base
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    License: BSD-style
    Summary: Utilities for managing shadow password files and user/group accounts
    Description: 
    This package includes utilities for managing shadow password files and
    user/group accounts:
    + useradd: creates a new user or updates default new user information;
    + userdel: deletes a user account and related files;
    + usermod: modifies a user account;
    + groupadd: creates a new group;
    + groupdel: deletes a group;
    + groupmod: modifies a group;
    + newusers: updates and creates new users in batch;
    + chpasswd: updates password file in batch.

    Maintainer: Mikhail Efremov


    Last changed


    Aug. 27, 2019 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt5
    - Backported patch from shadow-4.6:
      + newgidmap: enforce setgroups=deny if self-mapping a group
        (fixes CVE-2018-7169).
    - Don't use deprecated PreReq.
    Nov. 26, 2018 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt4
    - chfn: Silence format-truncation warning
    June 28, 2018 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt3
    - Fix default hashing method.
    - Request automatic entropy for salt.
    - vipw: Change -u option to imply -s (closes: #35097).
    - Use %e2k macro.