Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Quoting Serge Hallyn (serge.hal...@ubuntu.com): > > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > > > Hello fellow developers, > > > > > > > > I would like to request your help in testing the new version of the > > > > shadow package (that provides login, passwd and such other important > > > > or base packages). > > > > > > I haven't got much feedback....which is indeed what I was more or less > > > expecting. ;-) > > > > > > So, well, let's jump into the mud (I love to do that when > > > running.....not sure I love to do that in my FLOSS activities) and > > > I'll soon upload shadow to unstable.... Be prepared. > > > > Hi, > > > > so first glitch I found is that /etc/subuid was not created for me. > > login.postinst only creates that on new installs. In Ubuntu it > > does so anytime it does not exist - I assume you made that change > > on purpose? usermod -v refuses to run if the file does not exist, > > so users will need to be told to create those files themselves. > > What makes you think this? > > In login.postinst, we have: > > # Create subuid/subgid if missing > if [ ! -e /etc/subuid ]; then > touch /etc/subuid > chown root:root /etc/subuid > chmod 644 /etc/subuid > fi > > > (strangely indented, admitedly....but unless I'm missing something
Oh, yo'ure right. The indenting threw me off. And the reason they weren't created was that I was blindly expecting the uidmap package to depend on both passwd and login >= 1:4.2-1, so while i had upgraded passwd to experimental's version i hadn't upgraded login's. Sorry, my bad. So all seemed to be working fine! > obvious, it is unconditionnally run) > > That code probably somes unchanged from the patches that have been > proposed, indeed. > > And, well, on my system, /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid were indeed > created when I manually installed the new login package. > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list > pkg-shadow-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140502133733.GB1760@ubuntumail
