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#302 sp_lstchg field when a password is changed on Jan 01, 1970

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Thorsten Kukuk

Labels: modules (176)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2010-08-04

Created: 2009-04-04

Creator: Nicolas François

Private: No

On embedded devices, it is common that the date is set to Jan 01, 1970.

When a password is changed at that date, the sp_lstchg field is set to 0.
This value as the special meaning, which is that the password shall be changed when the user will login.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/349504 proposed not to set the field in this case.

I think it is a sensible choice, but I would prefer to have the same behavior in shadow and PAM, hence this patch.

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Nicolas François - 2009-04-04

Proposed

pam-sp_lstchg-19700101.patch

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Thorsten Kukuk - 2010-08-04

Workaround added to CVS.

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Thorsten Kukuk - 2010-08-04

assigned_to: nobody --> kukuk

status: open --> closed-fixed
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