On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:17:29PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > shadow maintainers, would you be willing to make the case of "no
> > shadow passwords in use, chage will fail" easily detectable from
> > inside adduser? Or am I better off by jumping through hoops in adduser
> > to find out whether shadow passwords are in use?
>
> Unfortunately, the shadow maintainers haven't replied to this message
> which was also sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thus cloning the bug to
> shadow.
>
> Shadow maintainers, please consider adding a switch to chage which
> doesn't make chage fail if no shadow passwords are in use.
Since the shadow maintainers at least gave it a distinct exit code, I
added a really cheap and nasty hack in Ubuntu to work around this; since
the whole situation broke debootstrap, it was blocking a lot of my work,
and I had to do something urgently ...
&systemcall('/bin/sh', '-c', '/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 ' .
quotemeta($new_name) . '; RET=$?; [ $RET -eq 3 ] && exit 0; exit $RET');
I don't know if this is the approach you want to take; a flag to chage
to suppress the error message would certainly be neater, but as has been
mentioned it would require a versioned dependency.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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