Shadow Utils
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Overview
HEALTH SCORE
Excellent
93out of 100
Strong maintainer coverage and security posture. Development cadence is the only remaining gap.
LIFECYCLE
Active
Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.
Health breakdown
Excellent(93/100)
Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.
Maintainer responsiveness
Median response time is 0 days.
Bus factor
20 active maintainers currently have merge rights.
Organization Diversity
Contributors span 61 organizations.
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About
Shadow Utils is a core Unix/Linux system package that manages user accounts, passwords, and group memberships. It provides essential command-line tools for user administration including useradd, usermod, userdel, passwd, and related utilities for managing authentication and access control.
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Software value
$2M
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