Bug#734923: base-passwd: The change to uucp shell broke the uucp cron jobs

2014-01-10 Thread cloos
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.30 Severity: important The recent change to base-passwd to make certain system accounts’ shell be /usr/sbin/nologin broke cron jobs which run under those uids. So far, I noticed that the cron.daily/uucp fails. Some system uids require a real shell; they should

Bug#734923: base-passwd: The change to uucp shell broke the uucp cron jobs

2014-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 734923 uucp forcemerge 734723 734923 thanks On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 07:35:04PM +, cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: The recent change to base-passwd to make certain system accounts’ shell be /usr/sbin/nologin broke cron jobs which run under those uids. So far, I noticed that the

Bug#734923: base-passwd: The change to uucp shell broke the uucp cron jobs

2014-01-10 Thread James Cloos
Ah. Yes, that is a valid fix. I should have found 734723 before reporting. ☹ Thanks, -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#734923: base-passwd: The change to uucp shell broke the uucp cron jobs

2014-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:40:25PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: Ah. Yes, that is a valid fix. I should have found 734723 before reporting. ☹ Not a problem. I absolutely own up to the fact that it would've been a lot better if I'd thought to do the archive grep *before* uploading base-passwd.