Re: Shadow -> 4.4

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:02:05AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 08:06:34PM +0000, contact.ng0@cryptolab.net wrote:
> >> Question: I don't prefer to crash and burn systems, which test is
> >> enough to show that it works? Reconfiguring one of my own systems?
> >
> > Yes. If it breaks your system, you can always reboot into an earlier
> > system generation. Another option is to use a VM. I tested both cases,
> > and it works for me.
> >
> > Would anyone else like to test it?
> 
> I have just reconfigured my system and I can login, and use
> sudo. More testing wasn't done.

I just pushed the patches, after adding a link to the source of the
snprintf patch.

> By the way, why don't we build 'shadow' with SELinux support?
> I know everyone is busy, but I think we really should get that
> hardening plan going - or at least come up with a plan on what we
> want now and who's interested/will be involved, etc.

I agree that we should get moving on this. The project is waiting for
some person or group to start working on it. I'm sure we'd all like to
see progress but many of us are at the limit of how much work we can do.