Bug 11951 - Comply with change date when updating password
Summary: Comply with change date when updating password
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Standard Compliance (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 normal
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Assignee: unassigned
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Reported: 2019-06-06 16:30 UTC by Adam
Modified: 2019-06-07 10:30 UTC (History)
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patch to fix this bug (1.62 KB, patch)
2019-06-06 16:30 UTC, Adam 		Details
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Description Adam 2019-06-06 16:30:47 UTC 
Created attachment 8086 [details]
patch to fix this bug

When the function update_passwd is called on a system with a date set to 1st Jan
1970 (like some embedded devices), the change date is set to 0, which has a special meaning:
"The value 0 has a special meaning, which is that the user should change her password the next time she will log in the system."

The attached patch fixes, this behaviour by setting the change date to -1 if called on 1st Jan 1970.
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2019-06-07 10:30:57 UTC 
Fixed in git, thanks!