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  1. Bug #499425
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Comment 14 for bug 499425

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Christoph (christoph-pleger-cs) wrote : Re: [Bug 499425] Re: getpwnam shows shadow passwords of NIS users

Hello,

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:27:16 -0000
Kees Cook <email address hidden> wrote:

> Upstream rejected these patches, so it puts us in a rather tricky
> position.

As far as I remember, Ulrich Drepper wrote that they do not completely
reject the patches, but that they are going to use a variable in some
configuration file, so that for staying compatible with existing
software, the new code is only applied in certain cases.

Regards
  Christoph