From: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:50:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: pwunconv: Drop incorrect comment
X-Git-Tag: 4.19.0~30
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07594bf4d01bd2f9a22b19d064f4dec1b838a6c7;p=thirdparty%2Fshadow.git

pwunconv: Drop incorrect comment

Shadow password files do not necessarily need aging information.
Also, passwd has no aging information.

No conversion is performed, so drop the comment entirely.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
---

diff --git a/src/pwunconv.c b/src/pwunconv.c
index fd11e9ad4..4adaf7028 100644
--- a/src/pwunconv.c
+++ b/src/pwunconv.c
@@ -194,16 +194,6 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 			pwent.pw_passwd = spwd->sp_pwdp;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * Password aging works differently in the two different
-		 * systems. With shadow password files you apparently must
-		 * have some aging information. The maxweeks or minweeks
-		 * may not map exactly. In pwconv we set max == 10000,
-		 * which is about 30 years. Here we have to undo that
-		 * kludge. So, if maxdays == 10000, no aging information is
-		 * put into the new file. Otherwise, the days are converted
-		 * to weeks and so on.
-		 */
 		if (pw_update (&pwent) == 0) {
 			fprintf (stderr,
 			         _("%s: failed to prepare the new %s entry '%s'\n"),