We don't know what it was for. If anyone cares, it's in git history.
In my distro, there seem to be no traces of it:
alx@debian:~$ apt-file find pwdauth
alx@debian:~$
Link: <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=pwdauth&literal=1>
Link: <https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/612>
Cc: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Cc: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
This program has 10 calls to gets(3) according to grep(1). That
makes it a very unsafe program which should not be used at all.
Let's kill the program already.
See what gets(3) has to say:
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
[[deprecated]] char *gets(char *s);
DESCRIPTION
Never use this function.
...
BUGS
Never use gets(). Because it is impossible to tell with‐
out knowing the data in advance how many characters
gets() will read, and because gets() will continue to
store characters past the end of the buffer, it is ex‐
tremely dangerous to use. It has been used to break com‐
puter security. Use fgets() instead.
For more information, see CWE‐242 (aka "Use of Inherently
Dangerous Function") at http://cwe.mitre.org/data/defini‐
tions/242.html
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
