shadow (1:4.16.0-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  /var/log/faillog and the programs to read it are no longer part since
  1:4.15.2-2.
  The file isn't cleaned up automatically, which should be done manually,
  unless it is still needed for special reasons.

 -- Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:48:35 +0100

shadow (1:4.13+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  The previous entry falsely states that PREVENT_NO_AUTH in /etc/login.defs
  affects authentication.  The historical default of letting all users with
  empty password field in without authentication is still in effect.

 -- Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>  Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:04:09 +0200

shadow (1:4.11.1+dfsg1-0exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

  Login now prevents an empty password field to be interpreted as
  "no authentication required" for UID 0 (root account).
  The historical default of letting all users with empty password field
  in without authentication can be restored in /etc/login.defs setting
  PREVENT_NO_AUTH to "no".

 -- Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>  Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:51:46 +0100

shadow (1:4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * /etc/securetty is no longer shipped by this package and it is no longer
    honored in login's PAM configuration by default. Please see #731656 for the
    details.

 -- Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:46:52 +0200

shadow (1:4.0.15-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * commands passed in argument to su must use su's -c option and must quote
    the command if it contains a space, as in:
        su - root -c "ls -l /"
    The following commands won't work anymore:
        su - root -c ls -l /
        su - root "ls -l /"
        su - root ls -l /

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Apr 2006 20:11:38 +0200

shadow (1:4.0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * passwd does not support the -f, -s, and -g options anymore. You should use
    the chfn, chsh and gpasswd utilities instead.
  * login now distributes the nologin utility, which can be used as a shell
    to politely refuse a login

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Jan 2006 08:47:44 +0100

shadow (1:4.0.12-1) unstable; urgency=low

  CLOSE_SESSIONS and other variables are not used anymore in
  /etc/login/defs.
  As shadow utilities which use this file now warn about unknown
  entries there, administrators should remove such unknown entries.
  The supplied login.defs file does not include them anymore.

  dpasswd is no more distributed by upstream. Login do not support
  dialup password anymore.  Re-introducing this functionality in
  upstream is not trivial.


 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:38:47 +0200

