Bug#635679: useradd and groupadd fail if /etc/passwd and /etc/group are symlinks

2012-05-20 Thread Nicolas François
tags 635679 wontfix thanks Hello, I will keep the bug open to document the issue, but I don't think it will receive a fix. Best Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#635679: useradd and groupadd fail if /etc/passwd and /etc/group are symlinks

2011-07-30 Thread Adam M. Costello
Nicolas François nicolas.franc...@centraliens.net wrote: How did shadow behave before this change? I think that it could read successfully the files, but then it probably destroyed the links every time a change was committed. I don't remember. I would expect the same behavior from PAM

Bug#635679: useradd and groupadd fail if /etc/passwd and /etc/group are symlinks

2011-07-29 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:20:21AM +, Adam M. Costello wrote: Until revision 3095 in the upstream svn, useradd and groupadd worked just fine if /etc/passwd and /etc/group were symlinks. That revision added the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open() in lib/commonio.c, and now those tools fail

Bug#635679: useradd and groupadd fail if /etc/passwd and /etc/group are symlinks

2011-07-28 Thread Adam M. Costello
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3 Severity: normal Until revision 3095 in the upstream svn, useradd and groupadd worked just fine if /etc/passwd and /etc/group were symlinks. That revision added the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open() in lib/commonio.c, and now those tools fail to open