[arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

[Matthew Monaco]

On 09/21/2010 04:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> 	I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update.
> Today I got /etc/shadow.pacnew which was a little surprising given that
> replacing shadow would be bad. The diff showed that the .pacnew entries were
> already in shadow (except for the root password of course)
>
> 	So this is just normal expected behavior by pacman right? shadow was there,
> pacman new it, so the new file was just installed as .pacnew. Anything else
> there I need to look at? Thanks.
>
>

It's nothing major, the last modified date for each password was set from the 
future (999999) to the past...