Bug#1025384: USERGROUPS and users as supplementary group

2022-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.129 Severity: minor Hi, this might be a corollary bug for #678615, where we settled on new non-system users getting users as a group unless adduser is differently configured. That was when USERGROUPS was still "no" in the default. Now, we have USERGROUPS=yes, and an

Bug#243929: adduser: Reserve specific UIDs for users that will be created at a later time

2022-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 thanks On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 08:42:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Unfortunately, docs and tests are missing, and there are still some > issues in the code (marked with TODO). Hence, it's still a draft. Having > the code on salsa will help with rebasing. I have writt

Bug#1024427: reproducible segfault in bullseye mutt

2022-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
Package: mutt Version: 2.0.5-4.1+deb11u1 Severity: normal Hi, I am attaching a maildir containing two public e-mail messages (they were sent to debian-mentors) that can be opened with mutt -f. Opening one of those messages causes a reproducible segfault on bullseye systems. unstable's mutt is

Bug#1024091: systemd-nspawn creates /nonexistent

2022-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
Package: debspawn Version: 0.6.0-1.1 Severity: normal Hi, invoking debspawn build unstable foo.dsc runs the build after the /nonexistent directory has been created. I was able to pin that down to the call to execute_sdnspawn. It might well be possible that this is a bug in systemd-nspawn or

Bug#1024090: adduser missing in include_pkgs

2022-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
Package: debspawn Version: 0.6.0-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, debspawn create unstable fails because it cannot create the builder user: adduser does no longer seem to be part of the default install. Either add adduser in include_pkgs in osbase.py, or create the user with the lower-level

Bug#782699: debian-boot: IPv6 prefix notation in the installer

2022-11-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 06:31:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:44:57PM +0200, Jens Link wrote: > > When using IPv6 addresses in the installer the prefix (netmask) has do be > > entered in > > hex (e.g. :::::). I think this is high

Bug#782699: debian-boot: IPv6 prefix notation in the installer

2022-11-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:44:57PM +0200, Jens Link wrote: > When using IPv6 addresses in the installer the prefix (netmask) has do be > entered in > hex (e.g. :::::). I think this is highly unusual and I have > never seen > this notation before. I agree with that. How high

Bug#1023023: systemd[1]: ntpsec.service: Can't open PID file /run/ntpd.pid (yet?) after start: Operation not permitted

2022-10-29 Thread Marc Haber
Package: ntpsec Version: 1.2.1+dfsg1-8 Severity: minor Hi, on my systems, systemd logs when starting up ntpsec: systemd[1]: ntpsec.service: Can't open PID file /run/ntpd.pid (yet?) after start: Operation not permitted The pidfile seems to be written okay though. This is misleading when

Bug#1021406: nmu: * against debhelper 13.9.1

2022-10-07 Thread Marc Haber
of your time. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to

Bug#1019428: Please, fix sudo to cope with libgcrypt changes (apparently)

2022-10-07 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 - unreproducible thanks On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:16:56PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > For the time being, I don't see anything the sudo maintainers can do > other than keeping eyes open and monitor this bug report for news. I have applied the Upstream patch that Todd del

Bug#1020615: adduser: README.Debian doesn't seem to exist

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 07:19:54PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Some feedback / typos: Thank you very much! This feedback is greatly appeciated. All of it committed to git. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Ha

Bug#1020565: Redundant atop log rotation

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
ed in a future README, see https://salsa.debian.org/debian/atop/-/blob/master/debian/README Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose t

Bug#1020615: adduser: README.Debian doesn't seem to exist

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 03:18:39PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Thanks for spotting this. Fixed in git. MR 65 created. In the mean time, find the information on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/blob/master/debian/README Greetings M

Bug#1020615: adduser: README.Debian doesn't seem to exist

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
r-- 1 root root 1044 Sep 5 21:57 TODO Oops! Thanks for spotting this. Fixed in git. MR 65 created. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen,

Bug#1010717: Spamassassin config causes errors on ubuntu 22.04

2022-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 confirmed pending thanks On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 12:48:51AM -0700, Adam Jacobs wrote: > I’ve submitted a PR to fix. I have merged this PR on May 8. Thanks for helping The links to the improved rule files are

Bug#1020718: should at least suggest the expected compressors

2022-09-25 Thread Marc Haber
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.142 Severity: minor Hi, a few weeks ago, update-initramfs has started to complain that zstd is not present on the systems. As I have lost the overview over the compressor-of-the-year evolution slope, I don't have zstd installed, and I also can only guess from

Bug#516285: y/n prompts

2022-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 - help patch thanks On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:13:59PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > I've created a small patch that may address this issue; merge request > available here: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/merge_requests/18 This one got applied and is in adduser 3.129

Bug#976305: atop: FTBFS twice in a row

2022-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 pending confirmed thanks On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:21:29PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > I cannot reproduce this with two debuilds in a row and two fakeroot > debian/rules binary in a row. Please clarify which commands exactly your > automated process

Bug#1013236: atop should not listen on 0.0.0.0 by default

2022-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
I intend to close this bug report due to lack of reporter input by the end of September 2021. Greetings Marc

Bug#1019428: Please, fix sudo to cope with libgcrypt changes (apparently)

2022-09-12 Thread Marc Haber
ssue should/could be reassigned to gnupg, but I'm not > sure. ... the issue is in PAM or gnupg. For the time being, I don't see anything the sudo maintainers can do other than keeping eyes open and monitor this bug report for news. Greetings Marc -- ------

Bug#1019428: Please, fix sudo to cope with libgcrypt changes (apparently)

2022-09-09 Thread Marc Haber
e verbosity due to that. This is a > quite annoying issue already fixed in other applications here and there (e.g. > apt). I do not see this behavior on my systems at all. Can you please elaborate a bit? Greetings Marc -- ----- Ma

Bug#1018861: adduser --gid fails with "group '-1' does not exist"

2022-09-05 Thread Marc Haber
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Bug#1018861: adduser --gid fails with "group '-1' does not exist"

2022-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 05:47:41PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > I confirm this behavior as a bug in adduser 3.128 itself. to write a valid testcase, I'd like to see the output of # grep -v '^#' /etc/adduser.conf on your system, if non-empty. If empty, please send a short message indicat

Bug#1018861: adduser --gid fails with "group '-1' does not exist"

2022-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
on, there will be an additional delay before the fix becomes available in testing. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things.&qu

Bug#1017952: groupadd: invalid group ID '-1' when adding with --uid

2022-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
bian/adduser/-/merge_requests/62 and still pending team review) -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nor

Bug#243929: adduser: Reserve specific UIDs for users that will be created at a later time

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:54:51AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Christoph Biedl wrote... > > > Upon request of Marc Haber, I'm attaching the latest version of the Thanks for the patch. I have committed to a branch of the adduser repository and opened MR !61. Unfortunately, do

Bug#1017912: adduser: dpkg asks a confusing question about /etc/adduser.conf (from the machine installation)

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 04:08:37PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-08-22 14:38:38 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > I apologize. What matters is the output of: > > > > < /etc/adduser.conf grep -v '^DIR_MODE' | sha512sum - > > > > (DIR_MODE is debconf co

Bug#1017888: marked as pending in adduser

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
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Bug#1017912: adduser: dpkg asks a confusing question about /etc/adduser.conf (from the machine installation)

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:57:20PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-08-22 13:42:01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Do you know the previous sha512sum of the old file? The preinst should > > catch most versions of the old file back to oldoldstable. Things are > > harder b

Bug#1017912: adduser: dpkg asks a confusing question about /etc/adduser.conf (from the machine installation)

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
re harder because the file might be debconf-modified. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Bug#152195: Suggested --homeless option may now be redundant

2022-08-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 11:06:07AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > I began implementing the solution to this bug just this morning. > > There are two parts to the fix: > 1. Clarify the intent of --no-create-home in the man page. > 2. Implement the new --homeless option. > > I think that #2

Bug#1017694: adduser assigns users secondary group to files/directories

2022-08-19 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 confirmed thanks On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 03:57:48PM +1000, Sahib wrote: > I've found that the new users home directory and files copied from > */etc/skel* are now owned by the users secondary group *(users)* > > rather than being owned by the users primary group. I can confirm

Bug#1017444: please don't upload packages with a changelog/changes dates too far in the past

2022-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
Package: dput Version: 1.1.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, please issue a warning/error (overridable) if the Date given in the changes file is more than a few days in the past. Greetings Marc

Bug#1017443: warning/error if changelog date too far in the past

2022-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
Package: lintian Version: 2.115.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, please consider implementing a lintian warning / error if the changelog date is in the past more than a few days. This avoids accidental uploads with forgotten dch --release. This is not as easy as it sounds, since lintian is used as well

Bug#101700: 1: ${python3:Depends} not expanded in Recommends line

2022-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
y used). > Yeah, I can extend that to look at recommends. That would be nice. Thanks! Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose thin

Bug#1016937: atop: autopkgtest regression on arm64 and armhf and times out on s390x

2022-08-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 10:08:26PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 13-08-2022 21:34, Marc Haber wrote: > > > running atop from unstable also hangs: > > > root@elbrus:~# atop > > > ^C > > > > on zelenka, running the atop binary just works fine. Installing

Bug#1017001: ${python3:Depends} not expanded in Recommends line

2022-08-15 Thread Marc Haber
reopen 1017001 thanks On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 09:25:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 12:58:51PM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > > I'm afraid I can't reproduce this. Nor can I find any code that looks > > like it could be responsible for it. > > I confi

Bug#1017001: ${python3:Depends} not expanded in Recommends line

2022-08-14 Thread Marc Haber
n3, and having ${python3:Depends} in the Depends: line works. It is just the weaker dependencies that doesn't work. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leim

Bug#1016937: atop: autopkgtest regression on arm64 and armhf and times out on s390x

2022-08-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 03:02:36PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 12-08-2022 12:23, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:51:32PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > > On 10-08-2022 12:03, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > I tried the (dead simple)d auto

Bug#1016937: atop: autopkgtest regression on arm64 and armhf and times out on s390x

2022-08-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:51:32PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 10-08-2022 12:03, Marc Haber wrote: > > Unfortunately, this bug report suffers from multiple cut or > > template error. The ci link points to the mercurial page for amd64, the > > text alternates betwee

Bug#1017001: ${python3:Depends} not expanded in Recommends line

2022-08-11 Thread Marc Haber
Package: debhelper Version: 13.8 Severity: normal Hi, I have a package, gensio-bin, which contains one seldomly used debugging utility. I would therefore like to not hard Depend on python and have added ${python3:Depends} to the Recommends line. That however ends up in a warning from

Bug#1016937: atop: autopkgtest regression on arm64 and armhf and times out on s390x

2022-08-10 Thread Marc Haber
the expression that counts the CPUs in lscpu's output and hope this will fix the issue. I also fixed a syntax error in the test, but that should cause the test to error out and not hang. Can you find out in which line the autopkgtest stalls? Greetings Marc -- --

Bug#1016913: remove invalidate_nscd

2022-08-09 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.123 Severity: minor We have planned to remove the invalidate_nscd function. There was discussion on debian-glibc (https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2022/07/msg0.html) with the result that nscd is already using inotify to validate itself on write access to

Bug#1016895: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#1016895: piuparts-devel dead, possible documentation issue

2022-08-09 Thread Marc Haber
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Bug#1016895: piuparts-devel dead, possible documentation issue

2022-08-09 Thread Marc Haber
Source: piuparts Severity: minor Hi, this is just a friendly heads-up that the wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/piuparts and especially the FAQ on https://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ suggest that people interested in piuparts might ask questions on piuparts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org That

Bug#1008082: How to --lock an account

2022-08-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 01:05:13PM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Before I start, I want to make sure we agree on what should be done. > > > > > > I asserted that two things were sufficient:

Bug#1016545: dpkg-conffile prompt when autopkgtesting a package from the minimal set

2022-08-02 Thread Marc Haber
Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.22 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: ja...@oneway.dev Hi, Severity: minor because this is probably an exotic corner case. I'm filing this anyway becuse it is probably easily fixed. I'm on the adduser team. Adduser is part of the minimal install and is therefore

Bug#1008082: How to --lock an account

2022-07-28 Thread Marc Haber
[just writing the bug report after realizing that that one forwards to adduser@p.d.o anyway] On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 05:52:03PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 15:21 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:12:50AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > > Fo

Bug#1008082: How to --lock an account

2022-07-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:12:50AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 12:09:27PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > > I think Jason was working on this? > > > > > 1008082/1008084/390457 --system --lock functionality > > > >

Bug#248130: adduser: GROUPDIRS support

2022-07-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:56:26AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 04:06:34PM +0200, Christian Gatzemeier wrote: > > BTW: What are the "bad side effects" of SETGID_HOME noted > > in the config file and what benefit did it give? > > I guess

Bug#1014506: slurm-wlm: flaky autopkgtest: sbatch fails without

2022-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
Control: affects 1014506 src:adduser thanks On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:56:08AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 11:22:44AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > [...] > > I looked at the results of the autopkgtest of you package on armhf because > > it was showing up as a regression

Bug#682156: groupdel performance

2022-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 03:56:40PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > We can do as suggested above and remove our own (arguably superfluous) > check, and take the minor performance win. You have my approval, go ahead if you feel like doing so. Greetings Marc

Bug#682156: delgroup I/O requirements are O(n^2) with regards to number of configured users

2022-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 passwd Control: retitle -2 groupdel quite slow with many users in /etc/passwd thanks Dead Shadow Maintainers, this is a one decade old bug file against adduser, saying that the check done on group deletion to find out whether there is still a user having

Bug#1015283: [INTL:de] Update of German translation

2022-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 l10n patch moreinfo thanks Hello Tobias, On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:32:03PM +0200, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote: > # German translation of adduser > # Copyright © 2000, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > # Copyright © Roland Bauerschmidt , 2000. > # Copyright © Dr. Tobias

Bug#1012420: no_del_paths includes /srv?

2022-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 03:26:24PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > AIUI /srv is under the purview of the sysadmin; if they decide to set > DHOME somewhere under /srv, shouldn't this behave the same as with > /home? I find it sensible that the default of no_del_path includes /srv. If the local admin

Bug#1015781: autopkgtests fail if user foo exists or existed

2022-07-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 08:37:32AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 08:27:15AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > The tests expect the test environment to be fresh. > > When I wrote the initial autopkgtests, my thought was that this was the > entire design idea

Bug#1015784: source-only upload requirement not documented

2022-07-21 Thread Marc Haber
Package: developers-reference Version: 12.5 Severity: normal Hi, for a few years now, the Debian archive wants to see source-only uploads. This is not documented in the Developer's Reference and also now in the New Maintainer's Guide. It should be there. Also, it should be documented that the

Bug#1015781: autopkgtests fail if user foo exists or existed

2022-07-21 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.122 Severity: normal The tests expect the test environment to be fresh. They relay too much on uids being the same and do not preseed adduser to provide reproducible uids. Reproducer: - create test chroot - adduser --system foo - deluser foo - verify that foo is

Bug#1015283: [INTL:de] Update of German translation

2022-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
brella list. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Bug#1015283: [INTL:de] Update of German translation

2022-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:54:06AM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 08:20:24AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:32:03PM +0200, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote: > > > I've updated the German translation of adduser (po/de.po). >

Bug#1015283: [INTL:de] Update of German translation

2022-07-19 Thread Marc Haber
Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Bug#1014901: Home directories should not be setgid by default

2022-07-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 01:05:51PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:38:46 +0200 Marc Haber > wrote: > > It is really sad that you didn't participate in the discussion in march, > > where this part of the changes didnt get much attention and noone ca

Bug#1014901: Home directories should not be setgid by default

2022-07-15 Thread Marc Haber
, archives etc to support is with the decision? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 62

Bug#682156: groupdel performance

2022-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
though. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to

Bug#906752: sudo, pam_keyinit, what to do?

2022-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
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Bug#1014901: Home directories should not be setgid by default

2022-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
at a loss here since I am just a server jockey who doesn't have many unprivileged shell account users on my boxes. -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Bug#1014450: usernames have a 32 character limit

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
eetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Bug#1014450: usernames have a 32 character limit

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 04:50:20PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 22:44 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:32:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > the useradd documentation says that a user name has a 32 character > > > limit. We

Bug#1008082: Beginning work

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 04:46:53PM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:18:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > If adduser --lock sets the shell to nologin, how would we restore the > > account? Setting shell to /bin/bash, allowing --unlock a --shell option? &

Bug#1014450: usernames have a 32 character limit

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:32:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > the useradd documentation says that a user name has a 32 character > limit. We should enforce this as well. Matt, would you want to take a quick plunge at this as well? You're still deeply acquained with the entire name ch

Bug#1008082: Beginning work

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 09:34:30AM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote: > I plan to start work on this issue in the next few days. > > Let me know if this conflicts with anyone's plans! Hi Jason, are you progressing here? If not, I'd like to tackle this with some low priority. If adduser --lock sets

Bug#640651: please set default FIRST_SYSTEM_UID=1 and FIRST_SYSTEM_GID=1

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 - help + wontfix Control: outlook -1 wontfix thanks On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 09:07:53AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > There have been only two people requesting this functionality in over a > decade. Making these settings preseedable would mean that adduser.conf > could

Bug#520037: adduser: could --force-badname permit non-ASCII usernames?

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Adduser 3.122 will include a major rework of the check name infrastructure including a new --allow-all-names option that allows all user and group names that useradd will allow. This bug will close with the 3.122 upload. Please feel free to reopen this bug with an explanation why the changes do

Bug#774046: [adduser] weak username check provided by --force-badname does not match useradd capability

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Adduser 3.122 will include a major rework of the check name infrastructure including a new --allow-all-names option that allows all user and group names that useradd will allow. This bug will close with the 3.122 upload. Please feel free to reopen this bug with an explanation why the changes do

Bug#440801: adduser: Option --firstuid no longer applied to GID's of new users' user

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:10:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > I do not particularly like the idea of overloading the first_U_id > option. Would it help you to have firstgid and lastgid options? --firstgid and --lastgid will be implemented soon. until nobody objects, I'll consider this

Bug#398802: Preseeding adduser/homedir-permission doesn't appear to work

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 wontfix thanks Hi, On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:21:38PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > I've put "adduser adduser/homedir-permission boolean false" in > preseed.cfg, but /etc/adduser.conf contains "DIR_MODE=0755". > The preseed entry appears to be ignored. the adduser

Bug#57280: Reassign this bug

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 wontfix thanks On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:39:29PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > The analysis of this bug report shows that the user reporting it wants > > to have the choice, possibly during an

Bug#290623: adduser should never use "nogroup" as a user's group

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
Control: Severity -1 wishlist On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 05:27:29PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > 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

Bug#1013236: atop should not listen on 0.0.0.0 by default

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 05:18:58PM +, Witold Baryluk wrote: > $ sudo ss -lnp | awk '$5 ~ /\[::\]|0\.0\.0\.0:|\*:/ { print $0; }' | grep atop > ??? UNCONN 0 0 0.0.0.0:255 >0.0.0.0:*users:(("atop",pid=2185,fd=3)) > $

Bug#851875: atop not installable if process accounting is stopped

2022-07-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:25:24AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > can you verify that this issue still applies to the current version of > atop, 2.6.0? I would appreciate that. No answer in 18 months. I intend to close this by the End of August 2022. Greetings Marc

Bug#678615: "users" group is empty

2022-07-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:37:28AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 15:34 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:07:11AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 12:46 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > (1) Augment the USERS_

Bug#693218: adduser --system should default to --group

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 - security - confirmed + wontfix thanks On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:36:18PM +0100, Wessel Dankers wrote: > However, multiple (system) accounts sharing a common group is not good > from a security standpoint. It gives unrelated processes access to each > other's files and other

Bug#664869: /usr/sbin/addgroup: syntax `adduser user group' not mentioned

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 confirmed thanks On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 03:12:55PM +0100, Mike Dornberger wrote: > neither the man page of addgroup nor the output of `addgroup -h' > mentions the valid syntax `addgroup user group' to add the user to the > specified group, but in fact this works: I have coded

Bug#214546: adduser complains about insecure PATH setting when running setuid

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 confirmed Control: retitle -1 doesnt run properly if perl -T is used. thanks On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:57:39PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > This problem is obviously related to the special taint mode which is > enforced by the perl interpreter when invoking adduser via super. If

Bug#143432: adduser: does not correctly support NIS

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Control: tags -1 wontfix thanks On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:04:32PM +0200, Maik Busch wrote: > If I add a new user on my NIS server adduser run 'make -C /var/yp' twice, > first after adding the user, and second after adding the group. I'm tagging this 20 year old bug wontfix since the adduser

Bug#110516: adduser: bad interaction with NIS

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-shadow-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Control: reassign -1 passwd thanks Dear passwd Maintainers, I am handing over this 18 year old bug to you since this looks like it's actually an issue in passwd tools. adduser has to my knowledge never interacted with NIS. Chances are that

Bug#1014450: usernames have a 32 character limit

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: normal Hi, the useradd documentation says that a user name has a 32 character limit. We should enforce this as well. In useradd, this seems to apply to the UTF-8 representation of the user name, that is, aa (two unaccented and 16

Bug#1014448: --force-badname should be --allow-badname

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: normal I think that we should step away from --force-badname. That option is a misnomer in the first place, as it doesnt FORCE a bad name. I can adduser --force-badname zugschlus as well as without the option. In fact, the option relaxes our default

Bug#1014444: need rollback mechanism in case of aborts

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: normal Hi, this is material for one of the next development rounds _after_ the policy issues (especially everything around locking accounts) has been cleared. If adduser is aborted for some reason (for example, a lock not being available in time, see

Bug#1014424: exim4-config: recieve warnings about messages being delayed by Smarthost

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
nfigure your local host as the smart host for your local host? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona R

Bug#1014424: exim4-config: recieve warnings about messages being delayed by Smarthost

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
't configure it, Debian did when I installed it? Debian asks for the smarthost and suggests a default. That default is wrong for you. Please fix that with dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber

Bug#1014424: exim4-config: recieve warnings about messages being delayed by Smarthost

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:25:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:16:26PM -0500, Tim McConnell wrote: > > Delay reason: lookup failed for all hosts in smarthost router: > > host_find_failed=ignore host_all_ignored=defer > > &

Bug#1014424: exim4-config: recieve warnings about messages being delayed by Smarthost

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
s it resolve at your place? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by

Bug#1014421: false \' alert in '\\'

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Package: lintian Version: 2.115.2 Severity: normal Hi, this line: (space), '@' and '\\' (backslash) (e.g. '\\ ' or '\\@'). To literally match a '\fB\\\fR' in a man page triggers I: aide: acute-accent-in-manual-page [usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz:16] I think this is caused by the '\\',

Bug#428770: sudo ptrace vulnerability (BugTraq ID: 24287)

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Control: outlook -1 close 2022-12-31 thanks On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:18:25AM +0200, Norbert Buchmuller wrote: > As described in http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24287 sudo is vulnerable > to an exploit where the executed command can be altered/replaced using > ptrace(). (Permission in the

Bug#377136: sudo: visudo editor

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Control: outlook -1 close 2022-12-31 if not forwarded On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:07:37AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > So, that was sort of cute, but from a practical standpoint, it appears > that /usr/bin/vi isn't guaranteed to exist, so this isn't as trivial to > change as one might wish. > >

Bug#678615: "users" group is empty

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:07:11AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 12:46 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > (1) Augment the USERS_GID with a USERS_GROUP setting, throwing a > > warning > >     if both are set. > > (2) Set the primary group of a

Bug#906752: sudo, pam_keyinit, what to do?

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Hi Chris, thanks for trying to help back in February. I'm coming back to this after being busy with other things. On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 05:09:10PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Marc Haber [220206 12:36]: > > in sudo, we have currently the situation whether to

Bug#1014398: need configuration option and command line option for default groups?

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Package: adduser Version: 3.121 Severity: minor I have found that we actually don't have a possiblity to set default supplementary groups for a newly created account. The only thing we have is the EXTRA_GROUPS mechanism which is off by default. This kind of surprises me. Should we have a

Bug#678615: "users" group is empty

2022-07-05 Thread Marc Haber
Control: -1 tags confirmed On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:19:40AM +0200, email@arcor.de wrote: > However, as the debian default is to use user(private)groups, > this leaves the general "users" group unpopulated. > > Please enable the standard "users" group as a default extra group, > to ensure

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