[arch-general] Filesystem and /etc/shadow

[Matthew Monaco]

On 10/25/2012 02:36 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Manolo Martínez
> <manolo at austrohungaro.com> wrote:
>> 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=packages/filesystem