Recent updates to passwd and other packages

[Mark Fraser]

Following the recent security updates to the passwd and login packages, I got 
a few warnings when running rkhunter:

[15:26:53] /bin/login                                        [ Warning ]
[15:26:54] /bin/lsmod                                        [ Warning ]
[15:26:56] /bin/su                                           [ Warning ]
[15:27:02] /usr/bin/lastlog                                  [ Warning ]
[15:27:04] /usr/bin/newgrp                                   [ Warning ]
[15:27:05] /usr/bin/passwd                                   [ Warning ]
[15:27:12] /sbin/depmod                                      [ Warning ]
[15:27:14] /sbin/insmod                                      [ Warning ]
[15:27:14] /sbin/lsmod                                       [ Warning ]
[15:27:15] /sbin/modinfo                                     [ Warning ]
[15:27:15] /sbin/modprobe                                    [ Warning ]
[15:27:16] /sbin/rmmod                                       [ Warning ]
[15:27:19] /usr/sbin/groupadd                                [ Warning ]
[15:27:19] /usr/sbin/groupdel                                [ Warning ]
[15:27:19] /usr/sbin/groupmod                                [ Warning ]
[15:27:20] /usr/sbin/grpck                                   [ Warning ]
[15:27:21] /usr/sbin/nologin                                 [ Warning ]
[15:27:22] /usr/sbin/pwck                                    [ Warning ]
[15:27:22] /usr/sbin/useradd                                 [ Warning ]
[15:27:23] /usr/sbin/userdel                                 [ Warning ]
[15:27:23] /usr/sbin/usermod                                 [ Warning ]
[15:27:24] /usr/sbin/vipw                                    [ Warning ]

Looking at the file lists for the 2 packages concerned, I see that they 
contain some of the above files. How do I check to see if the warnings can be 
safely ignored or not?

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