Package shadow-utils: Information

    Binary package: shadow-utils
    Version: 4.5-alt11
    Architecture: i586
    Build time:  Apr 28, 2024, 08:24 PM in the task #345854
    Source package: shadow
    Category: System/Base
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    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


    April 25, 2024 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt11
    - usermod: Don't call gr_free() with const variable.
    - Backported patches from shadow-4.9:
      + Fix covscan BUFFER_SIZE;
      + useradd.c: fix covscan RESOURCE_LEAK;
      + usermod.c: fix covscan RESOURCE_LEAK;
      + useradd: free grp to avoid leak;
      + newgrp: delete dead code;
      + fix: create relative home path correctly;
      + Create parent dirs for useradd -m (closes: #47023).
    - Fix Russian translation (#37633).
    Aug. 17, 2023 Mikhail Efremov 1:4.5-alt10
    - usermod: Allow group and submap operations for non-local user.
    - valid_field: Always reject control characters.
    - Fixed license.
    - Updated url.
    May 25, 2023 Nikolay Burykin 1:4.5-alt9
    - backported changes in newuidmap and newguidmap from sisyphus.