clone 377974 -1 reassign -1 user-setup 1.3 retitle -1 Should shadow passwords be enabled earlier? severity -1 minor thanks
Because user-setup-apply is only run during finish-install, shadow passwords are not enabled during pkgsel. This leads to the following errors (that are in themselves not harmfull as they are ignored, just ugly) in the syslog: in-target: Adding system-user for exim (v4) in-target: chage: the shadow password file is not present in-target: chage failed with return code 15, shadow not enabled, password aging cannot be set. Continuing. [...] in-target: Adding new user `statd' (101) with group `nogroup'. in-target: chage: the shadow password file is not present in-target: chage failed with return code 15, shadow not enabled, password aging cannot be set. Continuing. [...] in-target: Setting up pidentd (3.0.19.ds1-1) ... in-target: chage: the shadow password file is not present in-target: chage failed with return code 15, shadow not enabled, password aging cannot be set. Continuing. This could probably be avoided by enabling shadow passwords during post-base-installer instead. Note: I'm not suggesting to move the whole finish-install script there, just the parts that make sense to run earlier.
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