>From a discussion I had with Bastian Blank (waldi) on IRC:
08:42 * bubulle wonders why the hell someone is sayign that shadow passwords
are not enabled on
fresh installed sarge systems
08:47 < waldi> bubulle: check the passwd scripts, it never enables them
08:57 < bubulle> waldi: ? What about the STATE 2 in the state machine?
08:57 < waldi> bubulle: which is only reached from a reconfigure
08:58 < waldi> if [ "$1" != reconfigure ]; then
08:58 < waldi> exit 0
08:58 < waldi> fi
08:59 < bubulle> hmmm, how is the root password set, then?
08:59 < waldi> bubulle: base-config calls dpkg-reconfigure base-passwd
08:59 * bubulle checks how base-config interacts with passwd
08:59 < waldi> s/base-//
08:59 < bubulle> yeah...so shadow passwords *are* activated..:-)
09:00 < waldi> no
09:01 < bubulle> ??
09:02 < waldi> base-config is called if someone used d-i, not if someone
decides to use debootstrap
directly or just don't install the flagged as optional
base-config
09:05 < waldi> okay, base-config currently don't work in noninteractive mode,
need to write a bug
09:06 < bubulle> sure, but in the reported case, the user was using D-I.
However, he just mentioned
that he was actually *skipping* base-config voluntarily, which
explains why he
ended up with no shadow passwords.
09:07 < bubulle> waldi: and, yes, we have to deal with your #316219 BR
09:08 < waldi> bubulle: proposal: just call shadowconfig on in postinst if
called with install but
not upgrade
09:08 < bubulle> I probably have to move the shadow passwords question out of
the state machine
09:09 < bubulle> yes, kinda like that
09:09 < waldi> it won't hurt if someone decides to answer the question with no
later
09:10 < waldi> anyway, debootstrap won't ever reach this code, as it only does
upgrades
09:10 < bubulle> I'm not very familiar with debootstrap so feel free to propose
us a patch, it will
be deeply appreciated
09:11 < bubulle> ...unless another shadow maintainer actually knows better
about this than me of
course
09:14 < waldi> so I need to build my own archive to test that
09:15 < bubulle> waldi: OK for me to paste this in the bug log for 316219?
09:15 < waldi> yep
So, we probably need to follow Bastian's suggestion and at least make
sure that shadowconfig is run in postinst. After all, it doesn't
really hurt to run it during upgrades at first look.
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