[Bug 774580] Re: passwd -e does not work for LDAP users

2012-02-09 Thread Nicolas François
It is the expected behavior. passwd uses PAM to change password, but there are no API to expire a password. (I have no idea whether there would be such feature in a LDAP user database; if this exist, then some LDAP tools are needed) What could be done is to document in the manpages the options

[Bug 838585] Re: In login window, list of users includes RabbitMQ user.

2012-01-20 Thread Nicolas François
** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = rabbitmq-server (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to rabbitmq-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838585 Title: In login window, list of users includes RabbitMQ

[Bug 881988] Re: ldm-greeter blocks login after resume from standby before logging in

2012-01-20 Thread Nicolas François
** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = lightdm (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881988 Title: ldm-greeter blocks login after resume from standby before logging in To manage

[Bug 838585] Re: In login window, list of users includes RabbitMQ user.

2012-01-20 Thread Nicolas François
** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = rabbitmq-server (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838585 Title: In login window, list of users includes RabbitMQ user. To manage

[Bug 913029] Re: su segfaults when Ctrl-D is entered as the first charachter in response to the password prompt

2012-01-08 Thread Nicolas François
This might be caused by the interaction with a specific PAM module. Can you provide your /etc/pam.d/su configuration (and files included there). Also did you have any message on the terminal, on /var/log/auth.log or on /var/log/syslog? -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 523896] Re: useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

2011-08-06 Thread Nicolas François
I'm not really worried by the consistency of single files (each one are updated atomically). The problem is the inconsistency between files (e.g. /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow). I'm not sure what would be the worst case if for example /etc/passwd is updated but /etc/shadow is not. -- You

[Bug 551262] Re: cannot change root's password anymore

2010-03-31 Thread Nicolas François
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 546874 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546874 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 546874 passwd - can't login, change password (pam_winbind pam-auth-update profile) -- cannot change root's password anymore

[Bug 550194] Re: [Lucid] passwd reports a System Error when trying to change password

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas François
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 546874 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546874 The provided strace mentions windbind. This looks to me as a duplicate of bug 546874. Reporters: please check the resolution there. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 546874 passwd - can't

[Bug 523896] Re: useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas François
Just a note for any future bug reporter: It is now clear that it happens that the passwd or shadow (or group, or gshadow) files can be locked. The me also messages are not very useful (and will not make the resolution of this bug, if it is really a bug, any faster). Please provide instead any

[Bug 550194] Re: [Lucid] passwd reports a System Error when trying to change password

2010-03-30 Thread Nicolas François
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 546874 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546874 The provided strace mentions windbind. This looks to me as a duplicate of bug 546874. Reporters: please check the resolution there. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 546874 passwd - can't

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas François
The message System error is coming from PAM. My first guess is that you have a misconfiguration on your system, but this could also be a PAM bug. Can you check you /var/log/auth.log for messages from PAM? Can you provide you PAM configuration? (/etc/pam.d/passwd and the files linked from there)

[Bug 522553] Re: vigr demands vim to be installed

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas François
vigr and vipw do not call vim. This is due to a misconfiguration of your system. According to vipw(1): When looking for an editor, the programs will first try the environment variable $VISUAL, then the environment variable $EDITOR, and finally the default editor,

[Bug 501262] Re: enhance contrast in colours does not return to default apperance when unselected

2009-12-29 Thread Nicolas François
login is a command line interface program. Based on the XsessionErrors, my first guess is that this was intended as a bug report for the gnome login dialog box. ** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = gdm (Ubuntu) -- enhance contrast in colours does not return to default apperance when

[Bug 401627] Re: userdel command show unable to lock file

2009-12-03 Thread Nicolas François
shadow uses lckpwdf / ulckpwdf to cooperatively lock the files. These APIs do not provide any information on why a lock could not be received. Since the locking issue can be caused by other issues than lack of priviledges, I don't think the proposed change would be valid. -- userdel command

[Bug 487448] Re: Missing dependency to login

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas François
login is an essential package. There is no need to depend on it. Regarding the other issue, would you have some sample group and gshadow file? (make sure they do not contain any sensitive information before posting them here. -- Missing dependency to login

[Bug 487019] Re: passwd says Module is unknown

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas François
You have a problem with your PAM installation (see all the ... is missing in your bug report). The Module is unknown message indicates that a PAM module was not found, which is consistent. dpkg thinks that libpam-modules is installed on your machine, but a lot of files are missing, this might

[Bug 432964] Re: System crash in guest session locks /etc/passwd forever

2009-11-16 Thread Nicolas François
The goal of the lock files is to protect users from doing something wrong when system files might be in an inconsistent state. Removing the lock files at boot time would definitely avoid the issue pointed in this bug report, but would mean there is probably something wrong with the system files,

[Bug 432964] Re: System crash in guest session locks /etc/passwd forever

2009-11-15 Thread Nicolas François
adduser in Debian doesn't seem to be very responsive to our bug reports, so we may need to fix it ourselves... Whether this will be fixed by yourselves or by Debian, the problem need to be understood first. Is there a way to reproduce the issue? Does anybody have an idea if this lock file was

[Bug 446072] Re: Input-Window for username and password disappears

2009-10-08 Thread Nicolas François
I do not know what fixed the bug, but the bug is not in shadow. Given the description, it seems related to kde. I don't really know which of the kde packages manage the logins or if the bug is on the kde session management, so I reassign to kdebase. ** Package changed: shadow (Ubuntu) = kdebase

[Bug 214533] Re: oo2po crashed with ValueError in verifyoptions()

2009-07-22 Thread Nicolas François
From the backlog, it seems oo2po reported an error when it was feed with a MS PowerPoint document. oo2po is not meant to deal with this format, so the error is expected. Also oo2po did not crash, but just reported an error (it could just have been fancyer). Thus I'm closing the bug. ** Changed

[Bug 254523] Re: package update-manager 1:0.87.27 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin

2009-07-17 Thread Nicolas François
1) did the update worked afterward? 2) How long did you let it hang? 3) do you have a lot of users? are you using LDAP or a nss configuration other than 'files' (maybe it is named 'compat' instead of files)? do you have users with an high UID? There were some reports that useradd

[Bug 384024] Re: finnish passwd(1) refers to obsolete URL

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Petri, Can you make a proposal on how to fix this (i.e. do you speak Finnish?) I have no idea if just the URL should be removed, or the whole paragraph, or the whole manpage. shadow uses a PO based translation. It could be used to help the translation of the Finnish manpages and ease its

[Bug 104957] Re: users with no password can't log in with gdm

2009-05-10 Thread Nicolas François
I will add these lines to /etc/securetty in the next Debian package. Why did you included the displays from 0 to 63? (Is 63 the maximum, or is it just meant to be mostly complete?) If 63 is not the maximum, I would prefer to reduce the number of displays to a more reallistic value (i.e. I do

[Bug 349504] Re: if system date is set to 01-01-1970 users are enforced to update their password

2009-04-04 Thread Nicolas François
I submitted: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=2730965group_id=6663atid=106663 to get the same behavior when a password is changed on 1970 01 01 with PAM. Michael, in you patch, is it really needed to raise a warning? ** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #2730965

[Bug 326042] Re: kubuntu login screen on msi wind not maximized

2009-02-28 Thread Nicolas François
This is not a login issue, but a kde login issue. ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: shadow = kdebase -- kubuntu login screen on msi wind not maximized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 324922] Re: passwd does nothing (and is happy about it)

2009-02-22 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, Are you still experiencing this bug? Can you provide your /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/common-password files? -- passwd does nothing (and is happy about it) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324922 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 49604] Re: chfn only understands /etc/passwd

2009-02-22 Thread Nicolas François
There is currently no effort to get a better support for LDAP in shadow. (patch welcome, though) LDAP is currently supported by shadow only when the libc (NSS) or PAM provides support for LDAP. IIRC libc developpers were already not very happy having to support LDAP (or maybe even shadow

[Bug 327412] Re: Wishlist: new upstream release 0.3 is available

2009-02-18 Thread Nicolas François
I prepared a Debian package for 0.3.1 it should be available in unstable, but I don't know how it migrates to Ubuntu -- Wishlist: new upstream release 0.3 is available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327412 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 303515] Re: passwd indicates password updated although it wasn't

2009-01-30 Thread Nicolas François
It reminds me https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/272232 Could you provide your PAM configuration? (/etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/common-password should be sufficient) -- passwd indicates password updated although it wasn't https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303515 You received this bug

[Bug 317647] Re: usermod -G removes all other groups by default.

2009-01-15 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I do not really support the idea, users should use adduser instead of usermod. Also the actions are logged in syslog, and backup files are generated by shadow. However, if anybody provides a patch for this feature, please do not make it the default behavior, and implement it consistently

[Bug 316756] Re: conffile prompt on upgrade to jaunty

2009-01-13 Thread Nicolas François
If you could provide the old /etc/login.defs, that could help others checking if you made any changes. If you know the previous version of login you were using, it would be even better. Depending on what you did, the old configuration file might still be on you system as

[Bug 316841] Re: Freescale MX series needs new ports added to securetty.linux

2009-01-13 Thread Nicolas François
Michael, Do you know if there are other supported ttymxcX devices? -- Freescale MX series needs new ports added to securetty.linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316841 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 73024] Re: unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY'

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas François
FAIL_DELAY should no more be part of the current /etc/login.defs file distributed by the login package. When you upgraded, you should have receive a message for this file to ask you if you want to kkeep your configuration file, use the one distributed by the package, or see a diff. The proper

[Bug 278617] Re: login crashed with SIGSEGV in dump_core()

2008-10-05 Thread Nicolas François
The SIGSEGV occurs in /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: shadow = samba -- login crashed with SIGSEGV in dump_core() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 274534] Re: absence of crypt(3) conflicts with useradd(8) man page

2008-09-25 Thread Nicolas François
crypt(3) is provided by manpages-dev. I don't think this note in useradd(8) is sufficient to add a dependency on manpages-dev. -- absence of crypt(3) conflicts with useradd(8) man page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 272232] Re: passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully

2008-09-19 Thread Nicolas François
I cannot reproduce it here (on Debian). Can you provide your /etc/pam.d/passwd ? (and files included from there) -- passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272232 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 272232] Re: passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully

2008-09-19 Thread Nicolas François
Thanks. And what about the content of /etc/pam.d/common-password ? Did you make any change to PAM configuration? -- passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272232 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 272232] Re: passwd - passwords do not match but updated successfully

2008-09-19 Thread Nicolas François
This looks like a PAM configuration bug. When pam_unix fails, the error is (willingly) ignored. One temporary solution to fix this could be to change the line: password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512 to password required pam_unix.so obscure sha512 ** Changed in:

[Bug 259842] Re: Disabling 3D Accel, (and not holding @ 1280x800) with nvidia-glx-177

2008-09-12 Thread Nicolas François
This is clearly not a login issue (login is a command line tool used to login on terminal). I don't know if it's a gdm, nvidia-xconfig, or non-issue. I looks similar to #216871. I will let the gdm maintainers have a look at it. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: shadow = gdm --

[Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user

2008-07-20 Thread Nicolas François
I don't think there is a bug. This looks like a configuration issue. When it is called, chfn authenticates the calling user (root), and then check if the calling user's is valid. Being root is sufficient to get authenticated (pam_rootok is loaded in /etc/pam.d/chfn), but

[Bug 51551] Re: newusers uses crypt insted of md5

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
The debian 4.1.0-1 version fixed this (MD5_CRYPT_ENAB can be set to yes). Note that the prefered solution would be to define ENCRYPT_METHOD to MD5. (ENCRYPT_METHOD was introduced in 4.1.0 to allow new password encryption methods). -- newusers uses crypt insted of md5

[Bug 130205] Re: newgrp segfaults on exit when default group isn't in /etc/groups

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
This was fixed in upstream 4.1.1. No security implications were foreseen neither at that time. -- newgrp segfaults on exit when default group isn't in /etc/groups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130205 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct

[Bug 206226] Re: [hardy beta] the man page and --help output for 'useradd' are inconsistent

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
This was committed upstream (will be fixed in version 4.1.2). -- [hardy beta] the man page and --help output for 'useradd' are inconsistent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206226 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 80610] Re: pwent data can be overwritten by a PAM module in su source

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
This should be fixed in shadow 4.1.0. All getpw(ent/nam/uid) were audited and the replaced by call to xgetpw(nam/uid) when pam function might be used between the call and the usage. These new functions use the libc's *_r functions or copy the structures in newly allocated memory. It would be

[Bug 173918] Re: Spanish man page for passwd is outdated (1996)

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas François
Upstream moved to a PO based process to translate the manpages, and will gladly accept a Spanish PO file. You can request a POT file on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (currently there are no POT file in the repository: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-shadow/upstream/trunk/man/po/). -- Spanish man page for