Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3 Severity: normal Until revision 3095 in the upstream svn, useradd and groupadd worked just fine if /etc/passwd and /etc/group were symlinks. That revision added the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open() in lib/commonio.c, and now those tools fail to open /etc/passwd and /etc/group if they are symlinks. I don't use those tools myself, but Debian package installation scripts seem to use them. Can we go back to allowing symlinks? My system for managing my three Debian installations is based on keeping all my customizations in a separate directory, with symlinks from /etc/.
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-2 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 1.1.3-2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries passwd recommends no packages. passwd suggests no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: passwd/username: local-amc passwd/password-empty: passwd/make-user: true passwd/title: passwd/user-uid: passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: passwd/user-fullname: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org