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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chris Lamb
3d921155e0 gettime: Use secure_getenv over getenv. 2019-03-31 16:00:01 +01:00
Chris Lamb
cb610d54b4 Make the sp_lstchg shadow field reproducible.
The third field in the /etc/shadow file (sp_lstchg) contains the date of
the last password change expressed as the number of days since Jan 1, 1970.
As this is a relative time, creating a user today will result in:

   username:17238:0:99999:7:::

whilst creating the same user tomorrow will result in:

    username:17239:0:99999:7:::

This has an impact for the Reproducible Builds[0] project where we aim to
be independent of as many elements the build environment as possible,
including the current date.

This patch changes the behaviour to use the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH[1]
environment variable (instead of Jan 1, 1970) if valid.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
 [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
2017-04-10 22:29:21 +01:00