On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:59:34PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Russ supplied a patch to allow update-passwd to use debconf for > prompting, which I've now merged after some tweaking between us. As of > base-passwd 3.5.30, all these accounts will have their shells changed to > /usr/sbin/nologin, with debconf prompts at priority medium defaulting to > true.
There's been a bit of fallout from the change of shells. A codesearch run suggests that it isn't bad enough that I'd want to revert parts of it, but I'm reporting bugs collected here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=base-pas...@packages.debian.org;tag=shell-fallout In short, if you're using "su <user>" for any of the affected users (daemon bin sys games man lp mail news uucp proxy www-data backup list irc gnats nobody), and you weren't already passing an -s option, you must add "-s /bin/sh". Quite a few packages were already doing this since this was already a fairly common local customisation, but there are some stragglers. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140109112352.ga25...@riva.ucam.org
