Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.5-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/useradd
Affects: piuparts dbus
Steps to reproduce: basically this:
piuparts -b minbase.tar.gz --apt -d sid --mirror 'http://mirror/debian
main' dbus
where minbase.tar.gz is the result of a minbase debootstrap of sid
Expected result: package that was previously piuparts-clean continues to be
Actual result:
0m25.7s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
/var/log/tallylog not owned
This appears to be because dbus invokes adduser, which invokes useradd,
which since 4.5 invokes /sbin/pam_tally2 to reset the user's record in
that file (if installed, regardless of whether pam_tally2 is enabled).
I think this would affect any other daemon that creates a user for
itself - dbus is not special here.
Please make this conditional on pam_tally2 actually being enabled,
or conditional on that file existing, or something; or reassign to pam
and ask for --reset to not do anything if the log doesn't already exist;
or reassign to piuparts and ask the piuparts maintainers to ignore that
log file. I've X-Debbugs-Cc'd the pam and piuparts maintainers, since
I'm not sure which of these packages should be changed.
Thanks,
smcv
