Comment 12 for bug 22725

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:15:24 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Piotr Roszatycki <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#330471: postfix: Can't install if /etc/shadow does not exist

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:49:22AM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> Package: postfix
> Version: 2.2.4-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> (Reading database ... 11346 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.2.4-1_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up postfix (2.2.4-1) ...
> Adding group `postfix' (102)...
> Done.
> Adding system user `postfix'...
> Adding new user `postfix' (100) with group `postfix'.
> chage: the shadow password file is not present
> adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 postfix' returned error code 15. Abort=
ing.
> Cleaning up.
> Removing user `postfix'.
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

So don't screw up your system so that /etc/shadow is missing? Doesn't sound
like a bug to me. Why would you *want* a system without /etc/shadow?

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