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Fedora: shadow-utils-4.0.3-56 update Print E-mail
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Posted by Joe Shakespeare   
Fedora A regression has been fixed where strict enforcement of POSIX rules for user and group names prevented Samba 3 from using its "add machine script" feature with useradd. Also, the maximum length for a username/groupname is now 31 (previously it was 32). The lastlog command can now handle extremely large (greater than 4GB) lastlogs.

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-510
2004-12-09
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : shadow-utils
Version     : 4.0.3
Release     : 56
Summary     : Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files.
Description :
The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for
converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus
programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command
converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command
unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard
UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password
and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times
for all users. The useradd, userdel, and usermod commands are used for
managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel, and groupmod commands
are used for managing group accounts.

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Update Information:

A regression has been fixed where strict enforcement of POSIX rules for user
and group names prevented Samba 3 from using its "add machine script"
feature
with useradd. Also, the maximum length for a username/groupname is now 31
(previously it was 32). The lastlog command can now handle extremely large
(greater than 4GB) lastlogs.
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* Fri Dec 03 2004 Adrian Havill  2:4.0.3-56

- tweak max allowed length of user/group names to sizeof(ut_user)-1
  to allow for '\0' termination
- add lastlog support for >4gb (#125445)

* Tue Nov 23 2004 Bill Nottingham 

- ghost lastlog here (#139539)

* Tue Nov 16 2004 Adrian Havill  2:4.0.3-42

- change MAXMEM static limit on group count to dynamic (#125510)
- re-allow "$" as last char for the sake of samba (#132782)
- don't strip binaries for debuginfo


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

19b0b6aab5e0ac84b599657562552ce4  SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.src.rpm
e38ebc2565d9f4dc2ee0b50be4eb4b8a  x86_64/shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.x86_64.rpm
cc7e9854d4f357e6be265173d4b372e1
x86_64/debug/shadow-utils-debuginfo-4.0.3-56.x86_64.rpm
d59341efb0561541a0fe4258d6756378  i386/shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.i386.rpm
7b9232a5e8200dfb849bb63c770954e6
i386/debug/shadow-utils-debuginfo-4.0.3-56.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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