On Mar 15 15:42, nick.bat...@uk.fujitsu.com wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> >> In theory this should only happen if you *only* use passwd in
> >> /etc/nsswitch.conf.  If you use default settings (passwd db), this
> >> branch should not be hit either.
> >>
> >> So I wonder how your /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like.  Are you using 
> >>
> >>  passwd: passwd
> >>  group: passwd
> >
> > We install the following in nsswitch.conf just before running 
> > ssh-host-config:
> >
> > passwd:   files
> > group:    files 
> > db_home:  windows
> >
> > Does that explain the path we're taking?
> 
> Looking at the csih scripts, that would take the code into the mkpasswd 
> branch with the bug.
> So perhaps no one has noticed this before simply because the default 
> behaviour skips it.

Yup, makes sense.  Thanks for checking.


Corinna

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