Debian Bug Tracking System
2005-Jul-17 15:24 UTC
Bug#317854: marked as done (hal: Installation fails when passwords are in passwd file (no shadow file).)
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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 12 Jul 2005 02:58:54 +0000>From tevaughan@boson.homelinux.net Mon Jul 11 19:58:54 2005Return-path: <tevaughan@boson.homelinux.net> Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.202.59] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1DsAz0-0006rX-00; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:58:54 -0700 Received: from bazuba (c-67-165-219-250.hsd1.co.comcast.net[67.165.219.250]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005071202582101400qhtvre>; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 02:58:22 +0000 Received: from nort ([192.168.0.2]) by bazuba with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1DsAyS-0000IP-9r for submit@bugs.debian.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:20 -0600 Received: from tevaughan by nort with local (Exim 4.52) id 1DsAyR-0004z5-Kp; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:19 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaughan@boson.homelinux.net> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> Subject: hal: Installation fails when passwords are in passwd file (no shadow file). X-Mailer: reportbug 3.15 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:58:14 -0600 Message-Id: <E1DsAyR-0004z5-Kp@nort> Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Level: Package: hal Version: 0.4.8-3 Severity: normal Installation apparently relies on the chage command, which refuses to work if there is no shadow file. I''m not using a shadow file because, back in some forgotten past, I was warned against mixing shadow passwords and NIS. I''d rather not switch now, and I am (perhaps naively) thinking that HAL should work in either configuration, shadow passwords or not. root@nort ~ $ apt-get install hal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done hal is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up hal (0.4.8-3) ... make: Entering directory `/var/yp'' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp'' Updating passwd.byname... Updating passwd.byuid... Updating netid.byname... make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp'' make: Leaving directory `/var/yp'' make: Entering directory `/var/yp'' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp'' Updating group.byname... Updating group.bygid... Updating netid.byname... make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/vaughan.yp'' make: Leaving directory `/var/yp'' chage: the shadow password file is not present adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 hal'' returned error code 3. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `hal''. Removing group `hal''. groupdel: group hal does not exist dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-volume-manager: gnome-volume-manager depends on hal (>= 0.4.1); however: Package hal is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-volume-manager (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-volume-manager (>= 1.2.1); however: Package gnome-volume-manager is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome: gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.10.1.1); however: Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: hal gnome-volume-manager gnome-desktop-environment gnome E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, ''unstable'') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage0 0.4.8-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal0 0.4.8-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.062-4 /dev/ management daemon ii usbutils 0.71-5 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information --------------------------------------- Received: (at 317854-done) by bugs.debian.org; 17 Jul 2005 15:11:51 +0000>From sjoerd@spring.luon.net Sun Jul 17 08:11:51 2005Return-path: <sjoerd@spring.luon.net> Received: from simons.xs4all.nl (fire.luon.net) [80.126.201.244] (postfix) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1DuAo3-0000gF-00; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:11:51 -0700 Received: from spring.luon.net (t-27-64.athome.tue.nl [131.155.228.64]) by fire.luon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2182E13; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:11:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by spring.luon.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BAEF7301F0; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:08:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:08:43 +0200 To: "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaughan@boson.homelinux.net>, 317854-done@bugs.debian.org Cc: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#317854: hal: Installation fails when passwords are in passwd file (no shadow file). Message-ID: <20050717150843.GC25168@spring.luon.net> References: <E1DsAyR-0004z5-Kp@nort> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <E1DsAyR-0004z5-Kp@nort> X-Operating-System: Linux spring 2.6.11-powerpc #1 Fri May 13 15:47:19 CEST 2005 ppc GNU/Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: sjoerd@spring.luon.net (Sjoerd Simons) Delivered-To: 317854-done@bugs.debian.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER, VALID_BTS_CONTROL autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 reassign 317854 adduser severity 317854 important merge 317944 317854 thanks, On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:58:14PM -0600, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote:> Package: hal > Version: 0.4.8-3 > Severity: normal > > > Installation apparently relies on the chage command, which > refuses to work if there is no shadow file. I''m not using a > shadow file because, back in some forgotten past, I was > warned against mixing shadow passwords and NIS. I''d rather > not switch now, and I am (perhaps naively) thinking that HAL > should work in either configuration, shadow passwords or > not.This was fixed in adduser 3.65 Sjoerd -- Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek