Package shadow-edit: Information

  • Default inline alert: Version in the repository: 4.5-alt11

Binary package: shadow-edit
Version: 4.5-alt9
Architecture: aarch64
Build time:  Jul 26, 2023, 09:06 PM in the task #321877
Source package: shadow
Category: System/Base
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License: BSD-style
Summary: Utilities for editing the password, group, shadow-password, or shadow-group files
Description: 
This package includes utilities for editing the password, group,
shadow-password, or shadow-group files:
+ vipw: edits the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files;
+ vigr: edits the /etc/group and /etc/gshadow files.

Maintainer: Nikolay Burykin


Last changed


May 25, 2023 Nikolay Burykin 1:4.5-alt9
- backported changes in newuidmap and newguidmap from sisyphus.
Aug. 3, 2020 Aleksei Nikiforov 1:4.5-alt8
- NMU: fixed build with new selinux.
Nov. 6, 2019 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt7
- valid_field: Check that characters are ASCII.
- login.defs: Add SAFE_PWDB_FIELDS variable.
- man: Add SAFE_PWDB_FIELDS description.
- lib: Add SAFE_PWDB_FIELDS variable.
- useradd,usermod: Use valid_field() to check fields.