Release Goals Breezy : GraphicalConfigTools

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Ti_Uhl Wrote: 
> My program is nearly finished but i was wondering, if it's a big
> security risk if the user isn't prompted for changing his user profile
> in the /etc/passwd file. 

> 

> Currently the standard ubuntu config /etc/login.defs is set up to ask a
> password if chfn is called. Since my application uses this command to
> change the user info it will not work if this is set. 

> 

> A little bit off topic : python wich is shipped by ubuntu is missing
> the spwd module to access the user password db. Maybe someone should
> look in to this, as spwd is a standard module shipped with python. (
> wrong build ?). I did a little research on this and there seems to be a
> bug in the setup.py file for building the modules. ( wrong include file
> ) 

> 

> 

> greetz

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