On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Oxan van Leeuwen wrote: > I run a setup where the sbuild user is in LDAP. This makes the usermod command > in the postinst script fail, because usermod only operates on local users. > > Attached patch verifies the user exists in /etc/passwd before attempting to > run > usermod. I couldn't find another way to check whether running usermod on a > user > would work.
Why is the user in LDAP rather than local? My understanding of this is that when packages create system users using adduser, they are created in the local system databases, and not in LDAP, therefore we would expect that any modification of these users/groups would work in maintainer scripts after their creation. Regarding the patch, I don't think it's necessarily safe since other types of local database are also supported by the tools. Also, this isn't a problem specific to sbuild, it's a problem relating to any package creating/modifying users. I'm not saying that it's not a problem, just that if it's something that needs addressing, it needs fixing for the general case rather than just on a package-by-package basis. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org