Package: puppet Version: 0.24.4-5 Severity: normal Hi...
It seems puppet passes "incorrect" options to usermod when attempting to update GECOS but not make any other changes. The "-o" option to usermod (to allow duplicate user ids) causes usermod to fail if the "-u" option is not present (which, when not modifying UID, it is not). It would be fairly simple to either always pass UID to usermod, or to make the use of "-o" conditional on use of "-u", but ruby isn't my strong point so I'll leave it to someone who will make a neater job of it. I think the usermod provider code also fails to quote the contents to be placed in the GECOS field, despite a comment indicating that it is necessary (it is), and similar code elsewhere in puppet doing so. But it could be that it's been sneakily quoted elsewhere and I didn't spot it; as I said, ruby is not my first language ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-powerpc64 Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages puppet depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii facter 1.3.5-1 a library for retrieving facts fro ii libopenssl-ruby 1.0.0+ruby1.8.2-1 OpenSSL interface for Ruby ii libshadow-ruby1.8 1.4.1-7 Interface of shadow password for R ii libxmlrpc-ruby 1.8.2-1 XML-RPC support for Ruby ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii ruby 1.8.2-1 An interpreter of object-oriented Versions of packages puppet recommends: ii rdoc 1.8.2-1 Generate documentation from ruby s -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
