On 16/01/19 12:59, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 12:20 +, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>> On 16/01/19 11:58, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>> How come portage isn't in shadow, only in passwd ?
>>> Seems wrong to me.
>>>
>>> Jocke
>> Because the portage user never logs on .. hence has no password. That said,
> That goes for evry other system account too but these are in shadow.
>
>> it does seem an odd situation, since even users with no password do tend to
>> appear in /etc/shadow .. perhaps it was/is never "properly" added as a user
>>
> I think/hope so. Now passwd looks like so:
> portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
> This looks like a shadow account. Because of the missing entry passwd
> thinks this is a normal account:
> # > passwd -S portage
> portage P
> as opposed to:
> # > passwd -S daemon
> daemon L 10/28/1996 0 -1 -1 -1
>
> Jocke
With the help of some devs, I have drilled this down to commit
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/baselayout.git/commit/share.Linux/shadow?id=5ee3c95d2086e626247640ca35cf2da78c4c9846
in baselayout in 2016.
Some of my systems mysteriously (but predictably) are missing portage in
/etc/shadow as you describe, but these are prior to the baselayout change
above. Many have it as the commit suggests also. I suspect there may not
have been an upgrade path which added it between versions however, unless
it was pulled in via CONFIG_PROTECT somehow
Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521970 is also referenced in
that commit.
Hope that answers your question (and my curiosity!).
Regards,
veremitz/Michael.
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