#2144: shadow-4.1.0
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected]
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This version fixes the useradd/usermod groupname vs. groupid bug that can
still be observed in 4.0.18.2 (see #2145).
Here's a couple of suggestions for the instructions:
{{{
sed -i -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MD5@' etc/login.defs
}}}
instead of
{{{
sed -i -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@MD5_CRYPT_ENAB yes@' -e
's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@' etc/login.defs
}}}
According to the comments in login.defs, MD5_CRYPT_ENAB is deprecated, in
favour of the new ENCRYPT_METHOD setting.
Then:
{{{
sed -i -e 's/yes/no/' etc/useradd
}}}
instead of
{{{
sed -i 's/yes/no/' /etc/default/useradd
}}}
This is just to make it more consistent with the login.defs edit, where
the change is made prior to installation, rather than after.
Finally, we still see:
{{{
useradd: unknown GID 1000
}}}
This is because etc/useradd has
{{{
GROUP=1000
}}}
useradd apparently complains of the non-existent default group, even when
a specific, existent group is provided on the command line. So, we could
provide a group with GID=1000 (presumably this would be a catch-all
'users' group I've seen on occasion). Or we could change the default to a
group we already have in /etc/passwd or a new more suitable one if that's
deemed a better option. Or, we could remove the default group setting and
all related handling of it in useradd & usermod (which is part of what the
current Shadow patch does).
I'd rather not have a non-upstream patch though, if at all possible.
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