hey dan, On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Daniel wrote: > > > Well that was the problem: I installed Debian fresh on this system using > > > the Sarge RC installer back in December I think. When it configured > > > passwd it never even asked me if I wanted shadow passwords and I forgot > > > about it. So shadow passwords were not being used on the system.
i can't be certain without reinstalling some system with an official
sarge installer (i suppose i could deboostrap+base-config, but i still
wouldn't be 100% certain), but i'm fairly certain shadow passwords
are the default these days. looking in the debconf templates for
the shadow package included in the installer iso, i see the default
for the shadow question in true though...
i'll cc this to debian-boot to see if someone could verify this.
> > so in your opinion, should this bug be closed or should i reorganize
> > this bug as "nagios does not work on systems without shadow passwords"?
>
> in my opinion you should reorganize it because there definitely was a problem
> on the system
> without shadow passwords and because i think that the debian installer -
> at least some versions of it - were not asking if they should be enabled
> when setting up passwd. so it is possible that a good number of systems
> do not have shadow passwords enabled and could run into this same
> problem. or maybe you could close it and just have the installer do a
> quick test to see if shadow is enabled and then warn about it?
in any case i think not installing for systems w/o shadow passwords is a bug,
so i'll leave it open in some form or another. but what i don't know
is how severe this is, which imo is in large part dependant on what
the installer does.
sean
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