shadow-4.18.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

4.18.0

What's Changed

• CI: purge man-db
• passwd: document exit code when PAM has errored
• Man patches
• Quick fix: define E_PAM_ERR in lib/pam_pass.c
• Accept /usr/sbin/nologin as an alternate to /sbin/nologin
• Add LOGIN_ENV_SAFELIST to FOREIGNDEFS
• ci: add gawk as a fedora dependency
• man/useradd.8.xml: fix the CREATE_HOME description
• lib/getdate.y: Restrict the date formats that we support
• newuidmap: better error logging on failure
• Extend basic test cases to check shadow and gshadow entries
• lib/sizeof.h: Make sure STRLEN() only accepts string literals
• Add strprefix(), and use it instead of its pattern
• src/: Simplify, using strpbrk(3)
• lib/string/strdup/: STRNDUPA(): Reimplement in terms of strndupa(3)
• Remove dead beef
• lib/atoi/a2i/: Simplify these macros
• strtolower(): Add API, and use it instead of its pattern
• lib/: sget*ent(): Simplify
• fields
• yacc(1) is a dead language; bury it deep in the ground
• Test expiration date
• [scp] Add strcaseprefix(), and use it instead of its pattern
• valid_field(): Improve readability
• lib/, src/, tests/: Use the standard countof() instead of our NITEMS()
• lib/fs/mkstemp/, src/: Move fmkomstemp() to separate files under lib/fs/mkstemp/, and split into mkomstemp()
• [x][v]aprintf(): Add APIs, and use them instead of [x][v]asprintf(3)
• lib/get_pid.c: pid_t is a signed integer
• src/newusers.c: Fix off-by-one benign bug in array declaration
• Add some wrappers for usual loops around strsep(3)
• lib/fs/readlink/areadlink.h: areadlink(): Avoid inconditionally using PATH_MAX
• configure: Fix typo
• Update man pages for chage, shadow, passwd
• contrib/: Burn it all
• Release 4.18.0

Full Changelog: ​https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/compare/4.17.4...4.18.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit d4171ab2ff.