Adduser devel - Jul 2005 - Bug#316089: chage fails if plain passwd in use

clone #316089 
reassign -1 shadow
retitle -1 chage fails in plain passwd in use
submitter -1 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
thanks

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:17:29PM +0200, Marc Haber
wrote:
> shadow maintainers, would you be willing to make the case of "no
> shadow passwords in use, chage will fail" easily detectable from
> inside adduser? Or am I better off by jumping through hoops in adduser
> to find out whether shadow passwords are in use?
Unfortunately, the shadow maintainers haven''t replied to this message
which was also sent to shadow@p.d.o. I am thus cloning the bug to
shadow.

Shadow maintainers, please consider adding a switch to chage which
doesn''t make chage fail if no shadow passwords are in use.

Greetings
Marc

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clone #316089 -1
reassign -1 shadow
retitle -1 chage fails in plain passwd in use
submitter -1 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
thanks

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:17:29PM +0200, Marc Haber
wrote:
> shadow maintainers, would you be willing to make the case of "no
> shadow passwords in use, chage will fail" easily detectable from
> inside adduser? Or am I better off by jumping through hoops in adduser
> to find out whether shadow passwords are in use?
Unfortunately, the shadow maintainers haven''t replied to this message
which was also sent to shadow@p.d.o. I am thus cloning the bug to
shadow.

Shadow maintainers, please consider adding a switch to chage which
doesn''t make chage fail if no shadow passwords are in use.

Greetings
Marc

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Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> clone #316089 -1
Bug#316089: exim4-config - fails to install if system uses no shadow
Bug 316089 cloned as bug 317012.
> reassign -1 shadow
Bug#317012: exim4-config - fails to install if system uses no shadow
Bug reassigned from package `adduser'' to `shadow''.
> retitle -1 chage fails in plain passwd in use
Bug#317012: exim4-config - fails to install if system uses no shadow
Changed Bug title.
> submitter -1 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Bug#317012: chage fails in plain passwd in use
Changed Bug submitter from Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> to Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>.
> thanks
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owner 304934 Alexander Gattin <arg@online.com.ua>
retitle 304934 [XRGTN] Please document the -O option of useradd
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Hi!

I think 316089 and 317012 is there because of closing
298883 by chosing chage as an instrument to override
password expiration... :-/

I propose to use `useradd -O PASS_MAX_DAYS=99999`
instead and from my side going to update useradd''s
manpage (see bug #304934).
> Changed Bug submitter from Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> to Marc
Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>.
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xrgtn

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Marc Haber
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:17:29PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > shadow maintainers, would you be willing to make the case of "no
> > shadow passwords in use, chage will fail" easily detectable from
> > inside adduser? Or am I better off by jumping through hoops in adduser
> > to find out whether shadow passwords are in use?
> 
> Unfortunately, the shadow maintainers haven''t replied to this
message
> which was also sent to shadow@p.d.o. I am thus cloning the bug to
> shadow.
> 
> Shadow maintainers, please consider adding a switch to chage which
> doesn''t make chage fail if no shadow passwords are in use.
Since the shadow maintainers at least gave it a distinct exit code, I
added a really cheap and nasty hack in Ubuntu to work around this; since
the whole situation broke debootstrap, it was blocking a lot of my work,
and I had to do something urgently ...

  &systemcall(''/bin/sh'', ''-c'',
''/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 '' . quotemeta($new_name) .
''; RET=$?; [ $RET -eq 3 ] && exit 0; exit $RET'');

I don''t know if this is the approach you want to take; a flag to chage
to suppress the error message would certainly be neater, but as has been
mentioned it would require a versioned dependency.

Cheers,

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