Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to update the passwords. This fixes

http://bugs.debian.org/396726.  Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
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2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to
update the passwords. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/396726.
Debian patch 411_chpasswd_document_no_pam.
2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* NEWS, src/su.c: Avoid terminating the PAM library in the forked

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Remember to set permissions or umask to prevent readability of
unencrypted files by other users.
</para>
<para>
<command>chpasswd</command> does not use PAM to update the passwords.
Thus, It only updates the passwords from the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>
databases, and does not support the various checks provided by PAM
modules.
</para>
</refsect1>
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