So wrote sean finney on Wednesday, 29 June 2005: > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:15:54 -0400 > From: sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#316271: nagios install fails "chage: > can't open shadow password fileadduser" > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hi, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:00:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well that was the problem: I installed Debian fresh on this system using > > the Sarge RC installer back in December I think. When it configured > > passwd it never even asked me if I wanted shadow passwords and I forgot > > about it. So shadow passwords were not being used on the system. > > > > I just ran 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow passwd' and enabled shadow passwords. > > Now nagios installs fine. > > okay, good to know. > > so in your opinion, should this bug be closed or should i reorganize > this bug as "nagios does not work on systems without shadow passwords"? > >
in my opinion you should reorganize it because there definitely was a problem on the system without shadow passwords and because i think that the debian installer - at least some versions of it - were not asking if they should be enabled when setting up passwd. so it is possible that a good number of systems do not have shadow passwords enabled and could run into this same problem. or maybe you could close it and just have the installer do a quick test to see if shadow is enabled and then warn about it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
