On 16/01/19 12:59, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 12:20 +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 16/01/19 11:58, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >>> How come portage isn't in shadow, only in passwd ? >>> Seems wrong to me. >>> >>> Jocke >> Because the portage user never logs on .. hence has no password. That said, > That goes for evry other system account too but these are in shadow. > >> it does seem an odd situation, since even users with no password do tend to >> appear in /etc/shadow .. perhaps it was/is never "properly" added as a user >> .... > I think/hope so. Now passwd looks like so: > portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false > This looks like a shadow account. Because of the missing entry passwd > thinks this is a normal account: > # > passwd -S portage > portage P > as opposed to: > # > passwd -S daemon > daemon L 10/28/1996 0 -1 -1 -1 > > Jocke With the help of some devs, I have drilled this down to commit https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/baselayout.git/commit/share.Linux/shadow?id=5ee3c95d2086e626247640ca35cf2da78c4c9846 in baselayout in 2016.
Some of my systems mysteriously (but predictably) are missing portage in /etc/shadow as you describe, but these are prior to the baselayout change above. Many have it as the commit suggests also. I suspect there may not have been an upgrade path which added it between versions however, unless it was pulled in via CONFIG_PROTECT somehow Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521970 is also referenced in that commit. Hope that answers your question (and my curiosity!). Regards, veremitz/Michael.
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