On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:44:41 -0600 Matthew Monaco wrote:

On 10/25/2012 02:36 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote:

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The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight (to clueless users such as me). Could anyone provide a summary of what we should change in our current /etc/shadow?

Without the diff of the old and the new /etc/shadow I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.

Have a look in "man 5 shadow", this should hopefully explain what the difference between the two files are.

Unless something has gone wrong, you should be able to either ignore or merge the change and it should not make a difference, the reason /etc/shadow was changed was so that it would be in the correct state on a fresh install, for existing installs it should not matter.

-t

The change was with "uuidd". You can view changes like this here [1].

Also, as a general tip, I go through shadow, passwd, group, and gshadow occasionally and make sure all of the groups/users from filesystem are first, then all of the lines I've added, and finally all of the lines that were added by package install files.

[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk/shadow?h=pack...

While merging *.pacnew files is important, I would suggest not to mess with shadow files manually. They contain user/group info, and the missing/extraneous users/groups should be either dealt with via {user,group}add and {user,group}del or via pacman install scripts (which call the above utils anyway, like it was done in the case of uuidd). -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D