From gellyfish@gellyfish.com

This is a bug report for perl from gellyfish@​gellyfish.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.

The description of the getpw* functions in perlfunc.pod does not
reflect the actual implementation as regards the shadow password.

This is a suggested patch for the document :

1899,1900c1899,1902
< shadow versions if you're running under privilege. Those that
< incorrectly implement a separate library call are not supported.

shadow versions if you're running under privilege or if there exists
the shadow(3) functions as found in System V ( this includes Solaris
and Linux.) Those systems which implement a proprietary shadow password
facility are unlikely to be supported.

/J\

Flags​:
  category=docs
  severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0​:

Configured by gellyfish at Fri Mar 31 13​:01​:58 BST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.2.12-20, archname=i686-linux
  uname='linux orpheus 2.2.12-20 #1 mon sep 27 10​:40​:35 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
  config_args=''
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
  use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
  cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc-2.1.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl v5.6.0​:
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
  .

Environment for perl v5.6.0​:
  HOME=/home/gellyfish
  LANG=en_US
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LC_ALL=en_US
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/usr/local/informix/bin​:/usr/local/Acrobat4/bin​:/usr/local/informix/bin​:/usr/local/Acrobat4/bin​:/usr/local/bin​:/bin​:/usr/bin​::/usr/X11R6/bin​:/home/gellyfish/bin​:/usr/X11R6/bin​:/home/gellyfish/bin
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/bash

From The RT System itself

closed​: patch is in @​7385