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adduser package

  1. Bug #22725
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 22725

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:12:49 +0200
From: Marc Haber <email address hidden>
To: Lars Wirzenius <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#327144: adduser: calls chage even when shadow passwords aren't being used

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:45:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> adduser calls (as far as I can determine, not knowing perl) chage for
> new system accounts unconditionally. chage fails when shadow passwords
> are not being used. This causes some packages to fail to install (at
> least under piuparts in a chroot).

passwd upstream has again changed the error code that adduser tries to
catch in that case.

Greetings
Marc

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