On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:12:25AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > tags #316089 - sid etch sarge > confirmed #316089 3.65 > thanks > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 08:41:59PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > The fix for this appears to be broken. I see: > > > > Setting up exim4-config (4.52-1) ... > > Adding system-user for exim (v4) > > chage: can't open shadow password fileUse of uninitialized value in > > concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/adduser line 400. > > groupdel: group Debian-exim does not exist > > dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script return error exit status 1 > > That's kind of a cosmetic issue, the "use of unitiailized value" comes > from the construction of the error message (which does not get output > here). Which version of passwd do you have installed on your system?
It was actually an old version: 1:4.0.3-35 > The cosmetic issue has been fixed in svn, and I cannot reproduce the > issue any more here. However, that error message shouldn't have been > displayed in any place since this is the case the chage error handling > change was supposed to handle specially (which is does on my test > system). Can you please try > > adduser --system --group --home /var/spool/exim4 --no-create-home \ > --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim-test > > on your system and give me the output? The Debian-exim-test account > can be removed again afterwards. It appears to work fine on a fully updated sid system: # adduser --system --group --home /var/spool/exim4 --no-create-home --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim-test adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified does not exist. Allowing use of questionable username. Adding system user `Debian-exim-test'... Adding new group `Debian-exim-test' (101). Adding new user `Debian-exim-test' (101) with group `Debian-exim-test'. chage: the shadow password file is not present chage failed with return code 3, shadow not enabled, password aging cannot be set. Continuing.Not creating home directory. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
