Comment # 5 on bug 1198165 from Thorsten Kukuk

(In reply to Stefan Schubert from comment #2)
> Which delimiter have you had used for parsing the file via libeconf.
> I can reproduce your "error" with the delimiter " " instead of "\t".
> "\t" is used for the login.def.

login.defs uses " " and "\t". Sometimes only one of the two is used, most of
the time both.

https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/master/lib/logindefs.c#L263

For me login.defs looks correct and more like a libeconf bug.