Hi folks. So, we've got a couple of issues with Shadow at the moment.
1) Consider the following command: root:/# useradd testuser useradd: unknown GID 1000 Group 'mail' not found. Creating the user mailbox file with 0600 mode. The first message is because our /etc/default/useradd configuration file contains 'GROUP=1000' (that's installed from shadow-4.0.17). Now, we can either install a 'users' group as GID 1000, or we can change the default in /etc/default/useradd to one of the GIDs in /etc/passwd. Personally, I'd prefer the former, as I can't see a suitable default group in /etc/passwd. The second message is self-explanatory. BLFS currently uses GID 34, which would leave a bit of a gap in LFS if we were to use it. What issues are likely to occur if LFS were to use GID 16 instead? I'd imagine things may go awry with people restoring from backups, but are is there anything else I'm missing? 2) Consider the following command: root:/var/mail# useradd -m testuser useradd: unknown GID 1000 useradd: cannot create directory /home/users/testuser This time, the second error message is caused because '/home/users' is specified in /etc/default/useradd but we don't create that directory. Here, my personal preference would be to just change the default (to '/home'), though I'd be happy with creating the necessary directory if folks would prefer that. 3) pld.org.pl is now returning an 'unknown host' error. Hunting around, I've found ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/software/shadow but that only has shadow-4.0.3! Would someone be able to chase up the PLD maintainers and see what the problem is with the pld.org.pl box/domain name, oh and perhaps coax them into releasing shadow-4.0.19 too? (for those of you not watching at home, 4.0.18 has some pretty nasty brown paper bag bugs). We may need to consider pointing chapter03/packages.xml to anduin or another mirror if upstream can't sort out the current server issue. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
