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Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Thorsten Kukuk

Please send bug reports, questions and suggestions to <kukuk@thkukuk.de>.

Version 3.2.10
* Fix encoding of polish translations
* Fix long options of grpck/pwck
 
Version 3.2.9
* Move UMASK from /etc/login.defs to /etc/default/useradd

Version 3.2.8
* Fix usermod manual page
* Add quiet option to pam_rpasswd.so

Version 3.2.7
* Fix possible endless loop in userdel

Version 3.2.6
* Fix rpasswd protocol error
* Update translations

Version 3.2.5
* Add translations for da
* pwconv: Remove temporary files in case of an error

Version 3.2.4
* Make sure changes are really written to disk

Version 3.2.3
* New translations
* Adjust documentation

Version 3.2.2
* Don't lock system accounts by default

Version 3.2.1
* Adjust for new libxcrypt

Version 3.2.0
* Better support for audit plugin
* --preferred-uid/gid option for useradd and groupadd

Version 3.1.4
* Update polish translation.
* Remove FTMP references.
* Better pwconv support for  NIS entries

Version 3.1.3
* Allow compiling without native language support.
* Update swedish translation.

Version 3.1.2
* Check if crontab is installed before calling it.
* Fix seg.fault in pwconv in error case.

Version 3.1.1
* Adjust PAM config files

Version 3.1.0
* gpasswd: Add -l and -u option to lock/unlock group passwords
* passwd: Add support for BioAPI
* Add LDAP support for RFC2307bis

Version 3.0.7
* passwd.1: correct manual page
* passwd: Allow changing passwords with PAM even if service is unknown

Version 3.0.6
* chfn: Fix syntax check for home phone number

Version 3.0.5
* Fix compilation error of PAM module with new Linux-PAM release
* Fix CHARACTER_CLASS in /etc/login.defs

Version 3.0.4
* Fix pam_rpasswd.so

Version 3.0.3
* usermod: Adjust sp_lstchg if -p option is used
* useradd: Preserve existing home directory
* chage: Fix off-by-one errors in output

Version 3.0.2
* Fix loading of logging plugins
* Unify options (use always --service)
* Add -a option to usermod for shadow compatibility

Version 3.0.1
* usermod: Don't remove old home directory if an error occured

Version 3.0
* Add --stdin option for passwd
* Fix useradd -D option
* Fix PAM/syslog interaction
* Fix lot of ignored failing syscalls
* Compile daemons with -fpie/-pie
* Add support for logging plugins
* Add plugin for LAuS support
* Add plugin for audit support
* Add plugin to log with syslog
* Use libnscd
* Add support for GnuTLS
* groupmod: Add options to remove/add single user from a group
* usermod: Add options to remove/add single user from a list of groups
* rpasswd/rpasswdd: Better SLP support

Version 2.6.4
* rpasswd/pam_rpasswd.so: Fix SLP URL parsing

Version 2.6.3
* newgrp: Add -c option to allow sg emulation

Version 2.6.2
* Fix compile problem if SELinux is disabled
* rpasswdd: Re-register SLP service after timeout

Version 2.6.1
* newgrp: Fix NGROUPS_MAX handling

Version 2.6
* Add -f compat flag to groupadd
* Add UTF8/local locale translation
* Make regex for allowed accounts/groups configurable
* Add optional pam_rpasswd module
* Add SLP support to rpasswd/rpasswdd
* Add pwck
* Add grpck
* Add newgrp
* Add /etc/default/passwd support

Version 2.5.1
* Install all manual pages

Version 2.5
* Adjust for libselinux v1.5
* Add pwconv/pwunconv
* Add grpunconv

Version 2.4
* Fix -G handling of usermod
* Fix LDAP support
* Add gpasswd, groupmod and usermod
* Copy always all extended attributes
* Add SELinux support for passwd, chsh and chfn
* Make sure that group, passwd and shadow are always created with
  correct security attributes
* groupadd -g handling fixed
* vipw/vigr added
* Lot of bug fixes
* Add manual pages
* Add groupadd and groupdel
* useradd and userdel can now create/delete LDAP accounts
* Make compile with OpenLDAP 2.0.x again
* Rewrite ldap functions to meet demands
* chpasswd can now change LDAP passwords
* useradd: Lot of new error checks and bug fixes
* chfn/chsh: Allow user to abort with Ctrl-C during data input
* Add test suite

Version 2.3
* Add chpasswd
* Add expiry
* Fix chage options
* rpasswd client now checks server certificate

Version 2.2
* Add "-D binddn" option, to allow modifying LDAP data with a special
  account.
* passwd and chage: Allow modifying of password expiry informations
  stored in a LDAP database.

Version 2.1
* Add --disable-ldap option to configure
* Fix typos in chage.1 manual page
* Rewrite passwd manual page and explain all options

Version 2.0
* Fix -d and -E option of chage
* Use port 774 as new default
* Make compile with glibc 2.3 and gcc 2.95/3.2/3.3

Version 1.99
* Add chage
* Allow modifying of passwd/shadow file not in /etc (only chage yet)

Version 1.98
* Add manual pages for rpasswd and rpasswdd

Version 1.97
* rpasswd now reads config file with server name and port number
* Security fix for rpasswdd: don't allow remote changing of root
  password without authentification
* Add manual page for rpasswd.conf

Version 1.96
* Make compile with gcc 2.x
* root can now change passwords for other user
* timeout if client does not answer fast enough
* Sent LANG as locale to server

Version 1.95
* Make location of ldap config files compile time configurable

Version 1.94
* Add more sanity checks to prevent file corruption

Version 1.93
* Minor bug fixes to rpasswdd

Version 1.92
* Add rpasswd and rpasswdd fore secure, remote password changing
* Update to gettext 0.11

Version 1.91
* Many bug fixes

Version 1.90
* Complete rewrite