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Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config


On Feb  8 13:12, Tom Schutter wrote:
> It appears that the "-v" option to passwd was changed to "-V" in
> cygwin-1.7.10.1.  This indirectly breaks the ssh-host-config script.
> The actual breakage is in the csih script.
> [...]
> $ grep "passwd -v" /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh
>         passwd_has_expiry_flags=$(passwd -v | /usr/bin/awk '/^passwd
> /{print ( $3 >=
> 1.5 ) ? "yes" : "no";}')

Chuck, can we please remove this test in csih amd release a new version
ASAP?  The expiry stuff is from 2003 so we can safely assume its
existence.


Thanks,
Corinna

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