From: nekral-guest <nekral-guest@5a98b0ae-9ef6-0310-add3-de5d479b70d7>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:31:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to update the passwords. This fixes
X-Git-Tag: 4.1.0~98
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77bfba3017b430873f02214bcf5a6189935e5ca9;p=thirdparty%2Fshadow.git

Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to update the passwords. This fixes
http://bugs.debian.org/396726.  Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2ad14fc44..f93bc50e7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+
+	* man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to
+	update the passwords. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/396726.
+	Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
+
 2007-11-17  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 
 	* NEWS, src/su.c: Avoid terminating the PAM library in the forked
diff --git a/man/chpasswd.8.xml b/man/chpasswd.8.xml
index 9fad52f64..f3eafb7ed 100644
--- a/man/chpasswd.8.xml
+++ b/man/chpasswd.8.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
       Remember to set permissions or umask to prevent readability of
       unencrypted files by other users.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      <command>chpasswd</command> does not use PAM to update the passwords.
+      Thus, It only updates the passwords from the
+      <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>
+      databases, and does not support the various checks provided by PAM
+      modules.
+    </para>
   </refsect1>
 
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