Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:47:56PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Otherwise, I can also NMU it if you want because this is breaking one of my > packages. We are working on an upload scheduled for the second week of march. Greetings Marc --

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-11 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi All, On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:21:38 +0100 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Quoting Jason Franklin (2022-02-11 03:14:23) > > I have been helping Marc Haber with some of the issues in adduser, so I > > suppose it is appropriate for me to chime in here. > > > > Thanks so

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-11 Thread Jason Franklin
On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 15:32 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > How about doing a release with all accumulated changes? It's called > unstable for a reason, and frankly, I don't feel like putting ourselves > into a rush just because another package broke ours. I am certainly on board with this. Rushing is

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:24:44PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote: > Does this all sound reasonable? How about doing a release with all accumulated changes? It's called unstable for a reason, and frankly, I don't feel like putting ourselves into a rush just because another package broke ours.

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-11 Thread Jason Franklin
On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 07:21 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > I can also see how setting the -r option might have unintended side-effects. > > But the information you found already helps me to work around this problem > from > the side of my package mmdebstrap. :) Oh, cool! This

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Jason, Quoting Jason Franklin (2022-02-11 03:14:23) > I have been helping Marc Haber with some of the issues in adduser, so I > suppose it is appropriate for me to chime in here. > > Thanks so much for the report and for the investigative work so far! > > Here are my thoughts... > > The

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-10 Thread Jason Franklin
Johannes: I took a bit of time to look at this further. I think that adding "-r" to the useradd call found in adduser will not break anything. It's the best way to go ahead and fix this, and it is the most forward-looking solution. To Marc: I would like to implement this with a proper

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-10 Thread Jason Franklin
Greetings: I have been helping Marc Haber with some of the issues in adduser, so I suppose it is appropriate for me to chime in here. Thanks so much for the report and for the investigative work so far! Here are my thoughts... The "good" chroot has version 1:4.8.1-2 of passwd, and the "bad"

Bug#1004710: Please pass "-r" to useradd when needed

2022-02-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Marc, Quoting Bálint Réczey (2022-02-10 22:46:50) > Sorry for the delay, I tried bumping the severity to buy myself some time. > > It seems this is an adduser bug and the following patch fixes it: > --- adduser.orig2018-09-15 21:12:39.0 +0200 > +++ adduser2022-02-10