Adduser devel - Nov 2006 - Bug#398802: Preseeding adduser/homedir-permission doesn''t appear to work

Package: adduser
Version: 3.99
Severity: normal

Hi,

I''ve put "adduser	adduser/homedir-permission	boolean	false"
in preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains "DIR_MODE=0755".
The preseed entry appears to be ignored.

-- System Information:
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-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: false

This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> I''ve put "adduser	adduser/homedir-permission	boolean
false" in preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains
"DIR_MODE=0755".
> The preseed entry appears to be ignored.
I don''t know the fields for a preseed entry, I''m afraid, so
can you tell
me what the first one represents?  Package?  Title?  Something else?
I''m guessing at package, but I want to be sure.  I don''t
really see how
this happened, looking over the maintainer scripts, so can you help
debug it?

Thanks,
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On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> > I''ve put "adduser     adduser/homedir-permission     
boolean false" in preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains
"DIR_MODE=0755".
> > The preseed entry appears to be ignored.
>
> I don''t know the fields for a preseed entry, I''m afraid,
so can you tell
> me what the first one represents?  Package?  Title?  Something else?
According to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html
the format is "<owner> <question name> <question type>
<value>".
> I''m guessing at package, but I want to be sure.  I don''t
really see how
> this happened, looking over the maintainer scripts, so can you help
> debug it?
Sure. What can I do?

This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> >This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> >> I''ve put "adduser     adduser/homedir-permission    
boolean false" in
> >preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains "DIR_MODE=0755".
> >> The preseed entry appears to be ignored.
> >
> >I don''t know the fields for a preseed entry, I''m
afraid, so can you tell
> >me what the first one represents?  Package?  Title?  Something else?
> 
> According to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html
> the format is "<owner> <question name> <question
type> <value>".
Oh, cool.  I didn''t know about that manual.  Thanks.
> >I''m guessing at package, but I want to be sure.  I
don''t really see how
> >this happened, looking over the maintainer scripts, so can you help
> >debug it?
> 
> Sure. What can I do?
debconf-show adduser
is a start.  I expect it to just answer 
* adduser/homedir-permission: true
but I''d like to be sure.

If it doesn''t then there is a wierd bug that I can''t spot in
the
postinst.  If it does, then can you rerun the installer, but set -x the
adduser scripts and send the resulting output?

Thanks,
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On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
wrote:
> > >I''m guessing at package, but I want to be sure.  I
don''t really see how
> > >this happened, looking over the maintainer scripts, so can you
help
> > >debug it?
> >
> > Sure. What can I do?
>
> debconf-show adduser
> is a start.  I expect it to just answer
> * adduser/homedir-permission: true
> but I''d like to be sure.
# debconf-show adduser
* adduser/homedir-permission: false
> If it doesn''t then there is a wierd bug that I can''t spot
in the
> postinst.  If it does, then can you rerun the installer, but set -x the
> adduser scripts and send the resulting output?
How do I do that?
I''m installing from debian-testing-i386-binary-1.iso?

On 11/15/06, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
wrote:
> adduser.conf is consistent with the debconf-show output.
Grr, I mean inconsistent.
The debconf output (false) is right, since that''s what I set in
preseed.cfg.
> # cat /etc/adduser.conf
> ...
> DIR_MODE=0755
> ...
>

adduser.conf is consistent with the debconf-show output.

# cat /etc/adduser.conf
...
DIR_MODE=0755
...

This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> On 11/15/06, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >adduser.conf is consistent with the debconf-show output.
> 
> Grr, I mean inconsistent.
> The debconf output (false) is right, since that''s what I set in
preseed.cfg.
OK, just to be absolutely clear - debconf-show adduser says
''false'' for
adduser/homedir-permission and nothing for adduser/homedir-changed?  Wow.
> ># cat /etc/adduser.conf
> >...
> >DIR_MODE=0755
I will start digging.  Please let me know about the above two.

Thanks again,
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On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> > On 11/15/06, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >adduser.conf is consistent with the debconf-show output.
> >
> > Grr, I mean inconsistent.
> > The debconf output (false) is right, since that''s what I set
in preseed.cfg.
>
> OK, just to be absolutely clear - debconf-show adduser says
''false'' for
> adduser/homedir-permission and nothing for adduser/homedir-changed?  Wow.
Yes.

debian:~# debconf-show adduser
* adduser/homedir-permission: false
debian:~#
> > ># cat /etc/adduser.conf
> > >...
> > >DIR_MODE=0755
>
> I will start digging.  Please let me know about the above two.
>
> Thanks again,
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This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> On 11/15/06, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >OK, just to be absolutely clear - debconf-show adduser says
''false'' for
> >adduser/homedir-permission and nothing for adduser/homedir-changed? 
Wow.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> debian:~# debconf-show adduser
> * adduser/homedir-permission: false
> debian:~#
OK.  I am stumped.  I don''t see how those could be the settings at
postinst time, and still have the result you describe.  Is there
something I''m missing about the d-i/preseed environemnt?  Anybody else
have any ideas?
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