Subject: Re: bug#34225: 27.0.50; Add passwd backups to etc-passwd-generic-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:54:56 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:19:39 +0200
> 
> >     /etc/shadow-
> >     Backup file for /etc/shadow.
> >
> >     Note that this file is used by the tools of the shadow toolsuite,
> >     but not by all user and password management tools.
> 
> Yes, and "man 5 passwd" shows the same:
> 
>        /etc/passwd-
>            Backup file for /etc/passwd.
> 
> So I installed the patch to master.

Please add a comment there to explain why we do such a strange thing.