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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:22:07 -0700
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Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 4 2007 00:11, Karel Zak wrote:
>> newgrp:
>> 	add support for /etc/gshadow
>> 	check result from getgrnam() more carefully
> 
> Hm, gshadow looks like it is really obsolete. (There is no such file anymore in
> suse releases since a long while. Previously, gshadow was filled with all the
> groups that existed.)
> 

gshadow is used when you have groups which have passwords, which is very
rare in practice but permitted in theory.

	-hpa