Hi James,
> The response from the support person seems a little out
> of line to me.
I am trying to remain polite and suggest the he forwards the SR to the pkg team
> I would have expected to see an actual error message reported,
> rather than a python stack trace.
That was my expectation too, a nice message and return code, not a stack trace.
The Support person said
This is not a bug because:
1) the pkg utility points to shadow file where the issue
is so it clearly points on the issue
2) As I explained you previously a user/administrator shouldn't
modify those files, not only package commands will fail also
other commands that need to modify/access those files.
> On my system, /etc/shadow has the attribute 'preserve=true'
> to indicate that user-supplied changes are to be kept. Is
> your SOE package changing that attribute?
No my package wasn't changing the attribute.
file 36bab96f570ee3796305089aa4813ec3ac938e95
chash=92cd68243071f165de315752d217bfac46bb1f3c group=sys mode=0400 owner=root
path=etc/shadow pkg.csize=179 pkg.size=485 preserve=true
My package manifest had the line:
user username=sally gcos-field="Sally SOE Tester" group=staff \
home-dir=/export/home/sally login-shell=/usr/bin/bash \
password=$5$0VhDwQtp$GgvxKHaAk4LOixSF4ctBLR1Rc.GZS91igB22t1o4hj0 uid=2550
But before the user sally could be created pkg bombed out because it found this
line in /etc/shadow
c788661:rJGaY9XjrJwxE:14159:15622::::::
The line has an extra colon because I was simulating a common operational
cut-and-paste error.
When I took my package out of the equation, I was able to confirm that pkg(5)
will report this error when using a genuine Solaris package. (The support
person wasn't interested in this though).
To reproduce the error yourself, edit /etc/passwd and/or /etc/shadow, add or
remove a colon from any line, then run
'pkg verify pkg:/system/network' or 'pkg fix pkg:/system/network'
Cheers,
Rick
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