Bug#546268: cereal should pass UIDs to chpst

2009-09-13 Thread Jameson Rollins
I just pushed a patch for cereal that I think should fix this problem (r1265). Hopefully we can push a new release soon. I found the bug I filed against chpst related to this issue (#380261): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380261 Is the consensus that the current behavior of c

Bug#546268: cereal should pass UIDs to chpst

2009-09-12 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:58:09PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Because chpst is lame and cannot understand users (and groups) which > do not exist in /etc/passwd, cereal should turn them into UIDs itself > using getent passwd and getent group as appropriate. I'll most likely > attach a trivial pa

Bug#546268: cereal should pass UIDs to chpst

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: cereal Severity: minor Version: 0.24-1 Because chpst is lame and cannot understand users (and groups) which do not exist in /etc/passwd, cereal should turn them into UIDs itself using getent passwd and getent group as appropriate. I'll most likely attach a trivial patch which does this sh