chfn needs to learn about the --extrausers argument and use libnss-extrausers files when set

[Oliver Grawert]

as seen in bug 1492327, adduser now works for creating users in the extrausers db but when it tries to update the GECOS field at the end of adding a user (interactively and noninteractively) chfn falls over ...

chfn needs similar patches to the other shadow binaries that recently got extrausers support.

TEST CASE:
- create a user "foo" on an Ubuntu Core system
- run "chfn --extrausers -f some-name foo" on an Ubuntu Core system

REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
- low: this requires the new (and optional) --extrausers switch to change anything.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I uploaded a potential fix to https://launchpad.net/~snappy-dev/+archive/ubuntu/image/+sourcepub/6585931/+listing-archive-extra

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

seems to behave fine on my xenial desktop install, can't see any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package shadow - 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu6

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shadow (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu6) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * add support for "chfn --extrausers" (LP: #1495580)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:02:00 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Oliver, or anyone else affected,

Accepted shadow into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Sergio Cazzolato (sergio-j-cazzolato)]

Validation done, no errors found. Logs:
xenial: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/PrRPMnmBkN/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package shadow - 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4

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shadow (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4) xenial; urgency=medium

  * patches/1012_extrausers_chfn.patch:
    - add --extrausers option to "chfn" (LP: #1495580)
  * debian/patches/1013_extrausers_deluser.patch:
    - add --extrausers option to "userdel" (LP: #1659534)
  * debian/patches/2000_fix-su-pam-env-handling:
    - fix "su -l" to correctly use pam_getenvlist (LP: #984390)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:22:06 +0100

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for shadow has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.