On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:32:13AM -0800, shaul Karl wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: normal
>
> man page claims:
>
>If called with one non-option argument and the --system
>option, adduser will add a system user. If a user with the same
>name
Hi
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:12:11PM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> >
> > My rationale was that if garbage is detected, then one cannot assume to
> > be able to interpret the will of the user. In this case, it's quite
> > easy to just ask again, instead of going on and creating an account with
>
Tags 496683 +wontfix
Severity 496683 normal
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Package: libdevmapper1.02.1
Version: 2:1.02.36-4
Severity: normal
The init-script /etc/init.d/libdevmapper1.02 isn't LSB-compliant, so
having LVM2 installed, it prevents to use the new dependency based boot system.
Jörg
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Hi,
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:30:36AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi.
>
> It seems that /etc/adduser.conf is not marked as conffile for the
> package (but there's some file in /usr/share... ?!)...
> Why this?
the changelog
severity 545024 normal
thanks
Hi
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Christian Sievers wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: important
>
> This is related to bug #430640, but I couldn't mail to
> 430...@bugs.debian.org.
> There it was reported and finally fixed for the ca
severity 535857 normal
thanks
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Zak Wilcox wrote:
>
> When you delete a user and want to create a backup of their home directory
> in a specific place, a read of the manpage could easily fool you into
> thinking that the following would do the trick:
> de
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:18:02PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep "NAME_REGEX" /etc/adduser.conf
> > NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9\.]*\$"
>
> A default /etc/adduser.conf does *not* have this configuration directive.
> As you have a locally modified adduser.conf, I'm incli
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > Setting up hal (0.5.11-4) ...
> > adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> > via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
> > option to relax this check or reconfig
Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-4
Severity: normal
Installation of hal doesn't work.
Setting up hal (0.5.11-4) ...
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfi
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:01:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can confirm that this still happens in lenny's latest version of adduser:
> adduser/testing uptodate 3.110
I used the follwing commands and I wasn't able to verify it (adduser
3.110). Can you elaborate on how you tested the de
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 05:18:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
>
> This is intentional, for the purpose of verifying older certificates.
I don't see the reason, but ok ...
> Which application is spitting out those warnings?
It's a self-written tool which checks for expired (or soon-to-be-expired
Package: ca-certificates
Version: 20080617
Severity: normal
ca-certificates delivers already expired certificates:
WARNING: /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/GTE_CyberTrust_Root_CA.crt
already expired (Feb 23 23:59:00 2006 GMT)
WARNING: /usr/share/ca-certificates/signet.pl/signet_ca3_pem.crt al
(debian-l10n-spanish: Can you help out? I don't know gettext good enough to
debug this problem.)
Hi
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:13:57PM -0300, Ignacio Mondino wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.108
> Severity: minor
> Tags: l10n
>
> Seems like every time y add a user to a group, the program'
Hi Aleksi
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:54:03PM +0300, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> The synopsis section in the adduser manual page says that "--shell"
> can be abbreviated to "-s", but testing it with:
>
> debian% adduser -s /bin/zsh test
>
> reports "-s" as ambiguous (shell, system).
Thanks for spott
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:57:50PM +0200, Durk Strooisma wrote:
>
> If, for whatever reason, there's a system user having uid 999, adduser
> will look for a uid starting from 0 when a new system user is created.
I guess the relevant part starts at line 387 off adduser
elsif (!defined($new_ui
Hi
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:36:29PM +0200, Otto Visser wrote:
>
> deluser --backup backs up the home directory of the to be deleted user to a
> file
> called --bzip2. The order of the arguments in deluser is incorrect, changing
> line
> 325 by placing $backup_name directly after the "-cf" f
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:57AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> This bug is mostly harmless when deluser is called without a foolish
> flag like --remove-home or worse, --remove-all-files. It is possible,
> of course, to say "no, you can't ever do that", but I do feel a little
> uncomfortable s
Hi
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:19:35PM +0100, Bram Senders wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.106
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/sbin/deluser
>
> Deluser gives an error and then thinks I want to remove the root user.
> See the following transcript:
>
> ===
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> sudo delu
Hi Michael
thanks for pointing in the right direction.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:27:34AM -, Michael Geminden wrote:
> it looks like its related to if you call &which('name',1) like in deluser and
> wont happen if you call &which('name') like in your test script.
>
> it seems &which is retu
Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.18.2-1
Severity: normal
Package is uninstallable:
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 198935 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace login 1:4.0.18.2-1 (using .../login_1%3a4.1.0-1_i386
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal
Adobe flash plugin fails on startup (only in non-gtk browsers); KDE
claims that the problem is already fixed in SVN.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132138
Plase apply the patch from upstream subversion.
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merge 451967 454928
thanks
Hi Peter
This is a misleading message, there's no code behind it. Will be fixed in
next release. Thanks for mentioning it.
Jörg
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:10:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> $ sudo deluser --remove-home xmppgw
> Looking for files to backup/remove ...
> Removing files ...
> Removing user xmppgw' ...
> Warning: Removing group nogroup', since no other user is part of it.
> Done.
> $
>
> I do not
tags 453419 more-info-required
thanks
Hi
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:16:06PM +0100, Loris Boillet wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.102
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> deluser's --backup option assumes bzip2 is installed, but adduser does
> not depend on it.
No, it doesn't. If available in
Hi
Please provide a patch for GTK, since the flash plugin doesn't work in non-GTK
applications (breaks Konqueror, #443399). I don't think that Adobe is going
to fix it in the near time.
mfg
Jörg Hoh
tags 290623 +wontfix
thanks
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
>
> In my opinion any package who wants to use an unprivileged user ("nouser") or
> group ("nogroup") should create a separate user for that usage (see the
> www-data user fo
This problem is obviously related to the special taint mode which is
enforced by the perl interpreter when invoking adduser via super. If you
use sudo as wrapper to gain superuser access, the problem doesn't occur.
I'll try to figure out the differences and create a patch.
Joerg
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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-100
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Attached is a patch which enables to provide a environment variable MAILCMD
which will be called instead of the hardcoded /usr/lib/sendmail. This
enables one to post-process cron mails using a specific script which
filters the output of
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:33:33PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> deluser.conf.5 says:
> Comment lines must have a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line.
>
> adduser.conf.5 says:
> Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first column.
>
> adduser.conf.5 correctly calls the # a has
Hi
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:59PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.104
>
> While I was building a debian-live image I got this message. As you
> can see I'd built the image once before and was restarting from
> somewhere in the middle causing reinstallation of ntop
Hi
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:21:21AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.102
> Severity: minor
>
> The (commented out) EXTRA_GROUPS value in /etc/adduser.conf 1)
> contains two copies of srv; and 2) doesn't match the groups used by
> debian-installer for the first user --
Hi
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:56:00AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>
> adduser --system bernat reports:
> The user bernat' already exists as a system user. Exiting.
>
> My user is not a system user:
> bernat:x:500:100:Vincent Bernat,,,:/home/bernat:/bin/zsh
> And from adduser.conf:
> LAST_SYS
Hi
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:22:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Several packages have started creating system users whose names
> contain uppercase letters. These names for system users have some
> advantages over normal names, particularly:
> * It is easy to tell such a system user from a nor
On Dienstag 23 Januar 2007, you wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.63
> Severity: normal
>
> I can not explain how the following can happen:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/cvs# addgroup 'a:a'
> addgroup: To avoid problems, the username should consist of
> letters, digits, underscores, periods a
Package: adduser
Tags: fixed-in-svn
Hi Vincent
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:25:23AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.103
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> When generating a archive (BACKUP = 1) with deluser, the perl program
> set the umask to 600 (decimal number
On Samstag 15 Januar 2005, you wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.59
> Severity: normal
>
> adduser should never use "nogroup" as the group for a user by default.
> The reason nobody and nogroup exists is so that processes can be sure of
> having no special access to the file system. For this
Package: passwd
Version: 4.0.18.1-10
Severity: high
userdel removes also a group with the same name as the user, if the user is
getting removed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] trunk $ sudo adduser --system bugtest
Lege Systembenutzer »bugtest« (UID 110) an ...
Lege neuen Benutzer »bugtest« (UID 110) mit Grup
package adduser
tags #428144 confirmed
thanks
Bugfix has been committed to subversion. Thanks.
Jörg Hoh
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:32:25PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
>
> Why not? If you want to have a second root user without
> password, homedirectory and login shell you need it.
Why not use sudo?
> And I
> mean technically there is no problem with that. In some
> cases you can't use root fo
Package: postfix
Version: 2.3.6-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi
In order to make certificates accessible in the postfix chroot, the
init-script concatenate all required certificates in a single file, so you
can use the smtp_tls_file and smtp_tls_file stanzas.
My suggestion is to add the following part t
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:33:07PM -0200, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.63
> Severity: normal
>
> I can not explain how the following can happen:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/cvs# addgroup 'a:a'
> addgroup: To avoid problems, the username should consist of
> let
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:26:03PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Joerg, ping
Sorry, was busy all over the week.
> * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-07 19:40]:
> > * Joerg Hoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-07 18:15]:
> > > The machine has 64M of
using fdisk to create the partitions. Does Debian now
need > 64M RAM to offer a decent partition interface?
mfg
Joerg Hoh
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Package: sun-java5-bin
Version: 1.5.0-08-1.1
Severity: normal
On virtuozzo systems the memory which can be allocated by processes is
limited; calling "$basedir/bin/java -client -Xshare:dump > /dev/null" in
postinst crashes obviously allocating (too) much memory.
(Java itself is usable on such a
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:39:56AM +0200, Andreas John wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.82
> severity: minor
>
> When installing dcc-client you see a warning in adduser:
>
> Use of uninitialized value in printf at /usr/sbin/adduser line 329.
Can you upgrade to latest adduser and try again
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.04.09-2
Severity: whishlist
Tags: patch
Hi
Attached is a small patch to the manpage resize2fs.8 which adds some
references to LVM and lvextend (8).
Jörg
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Hi
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:52:40PM +0100, S??awomir 'Lamagra' Wróbel wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.80
> Severity: normal
>
> In the version from sarge there is no problem with adding or removing
> user.
Can you give it another try? It should be already fixed in sid.
Jörg Hoh
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:52:44PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> severity 362409 normal
> thanks
>
> Marc Haber writes:
>
> > delgroup exits with an error return value if a command cannot be
> > executed. delgroup --only-if-empty cannot be executed if the group is
> > non-empty. Hence, it is the
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:40:29AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:40:41PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> > > > Please apply the attached patch.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:40:41PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> > Please apply the attached patch. It groups the variuos options of hdparm
> > into logical sections.
>
> Er, have you noticed that the current manpage is alphabe
Package: hdparm
Version: 6.3-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Please apply the attached patch. It groups the variuos options of hdparm
into logical sections.
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:29:06PM +1100, Ted Percival wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.85
> Severity: normal
>
> If creating the home directory fails there is no error message
> indicating why.
>
> # adduser --system --debug sshd
> Selecting uid from range 100 to 999.
> Adding system user
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:06:30PM -0600, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.80
> Followup-For: Bug #352496
>
> Cause of the bug appears to be a missing backslash reference operator
> inside the call to GetOptions().
> Making this one-character fix appears to solve the problem.
>
Hi
We need to have a persistent statefile if we want to avoid to reuse a uid
which was already used by some other user. Think of the following scenario:
adduser foo
-> foo gets uid X
deluser foo
-> uid X is no longer used
adduser bar
-> bar gets uid X
So this uid is reused, even with the "alwa
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:23:27PM -0800, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> reopen 351681
> thanks
>
> Hmm. It looks like this bug may have re-surfaced:
>
> # adduser nonexistent
> Adding user `nonexistent'...
> Adding new group `nonexistent' (1002).
> groupadd: GID 1002 is not unique
> adduser
Hi Kevin
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:44:28PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.83
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi,
>
> If adduser is called with the --system option without a specific UID, it
> complains "Use of uninitialized value in printf" (note the 3rd and 4th
> lines b
Hi Henrique
Thank you for your detailled bug description.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:54:04PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> The bug is in routine existing_user_ok. It must not return 2 if $new_uid is
> undefined. In that case, only 0 and 1 are valid results.
Can you try the att
Hi Aaron
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:28PM -0600, Aaron Hall wrote:
> Hello, on a local system I wanted to fix the problem talked about in
> this bug, and for us, the "naive" approach of selecting a UID one higher
> than the highest currently in the range was good enough. I locally
> modified add
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:26:02AM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote:
>
> It's not the case which bothers me, but that it expects a "Y" or "y" while
> asking:
>
> Sind die Informationen korrekt? [j/N]
>
> The prompt asks for a "j" as positive answer while actually only a "y" as
> answer is accepted
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:27:47PM +0100, Claudio Nieder wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.80
> Severity: normal
>
> In the german translation, the prompt appearing after the users
> information was added asking "If the information are correct [y/N]" is
> translated to the german letters [j/N
Exchanging the
setgrent;
push @gids, $gid while defined($gid = (getgrent)[2]);
endgrent;
loop with something similar to this
my $id = $min;
while (defined(getpwuid($id))) $id++;
return $id;
has probably the already mentioned effect of slowing down when using
"files" NSS. But if the case is "sl
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:09:23PM -0400, D Goel wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here's a reproducible way to produce a similar bug:
>
> host:/etc/skel/.gnome# cd /etc/skel/.gnome; touch "'>ente"
>
>Now, make sure /home/tmpfoo does not exist, and try:
>
># adduser tmpfoo
>
>I
Package: python2.4-apt
Version: 0.6.13.1
Severity: wishlist
It seems that the python2.4-apt package is missing its examples. Can you
add them again?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp $ dpkg -L python2.4-apt
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/python2.4
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:44:29PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> That's great of you and I'm sure Tomasz will appreciate the help. Just
> to be sure...you, of course have upstream's CVS address, right ?
Hm, not at the moment, but I will ask google :-)
Jörg
(And of course you're welcome to
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:19:57AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> On the other hand, I'm pretty convinced that upstream documentation
> needs a big general overview. Neither the upstream author (Tomasz
> Kloczko), nor the Debian maintainers (with only one exception) are
> native English speake
Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.3-39
Severity: wishlist
Please include the following patch. It adds the the description of the
return values to the manpage of useradd.
Jörg Hoh
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Architec
Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686
Version: 2.6.10-4
Severity: normal
I have a computer with a SATA-Drive and a IDE-DVDRAM burner. When I boot with
that kernel, the sata drive is detected, but not the DVD-RAM-Device. The
motherboard is a intel 865.
part of dmesg:
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F
Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686
Version: 2.6.10-4
Severity: important
I've updated from kernel 2.4 to kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686 on a computer
with 1 SATA drive and grub had a wrong kernel boot paramter (root=/dev/hda1
instead of /dev/sda1) and did not boot with that new kernel.
Jörg
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