To make it more clearly, I have attached another logfile. This new one is from Ubuntu 12.04 in the same environment as above.
If you diff it with the stracenewgrp.log you can see, that in Ubuntu 14.04 the newgrp tries to allocate files associated to the language settings in /usr/share/locale while this is not the behaviour in 12.04. For what are those files located in the locales needed? The files it tries to access are not installed nor can they be installed as far as I know (please correct me if I am wrong here). It seems to me that it uses these files for the whole group handling which does not make sense at all to me. The /etc/login.defs does make a lot more sense... Hope this helps. Kind regards Marco ** Attachment added: "1204.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1355111/+attachment/4183483/+files/1204.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shadow in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1355111 Title: newgrp fails with "crypt: Invalid argument" Status in “shadow” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: entry from /etc/passwd: user:x:1000:1000:User,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash entry from /etc/group: dummy:x:200:user entry from /etc/gshadow: dummy:*:: logged on as user the command "newgrp dummy" asks for a password and fails with "crypt: Invalid argument" after removing the line for dummy from gshadow newgrp works A similar bug was reported on the redhat tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988184 cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1355111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
