Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.28
Severity: normal
I had removed the gnats account on my system since I had no use for
it, not realizing that it was one of the "standard" ones. On the next
upgrade of base-passwd, it prompted me as follows:
Setting up base-passwd (3.5.28) ...
update-passwd has found some differences between your system accounts
and the current Debian defaults. It is advisable to allow update-passwd
to change your system; without those changes some packages might not work
correctly. For more documentation on the Debian account policies please
see /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README.
The list of proposed changes is:
Adding group "gnats" (41)
Adding user "gnats" (41)
Would commit 2 changes
It is highly recommended that you allow update-passwd to make these changes
(a backup file of modified files is made with the extension .org so you can
always restore the current settings).
May I update your system? [Y/n]
Okay, I am going to make the necessary updates now
Adding group "gnats" (41)
Adding user "gnats" (41)
2 changes have been made, rewriting files
Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd
Writing shadow-file to /etc/shadow
Writing group-file to /etc/group
But in fact no gnats entry was made to /etc/shadow:
# pwck -q
no matching password file entry in /etc/shadow
add user 'gnats' in /etc/shadow? y
pwck: the files have been updated
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages base-passwd depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-92+b1
base-passwd recommends no packages.
base-passwd suggests no packages.
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