Hello Oliver, or anyone else affected, Accepted shadow into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial -- 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/1495580 Title: chfn needs to learn about the --extrausers argument and use libnss- extrausers files when set Status in Snappy: Fix Released Status in shadow package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in shadow source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in shadow source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: as seen in bug 1492327, adduser now works for creating users in the extrausers db but when it tries to update the GECOS field at the end of adding a user (interactively and noninteractively) chfn falls over ... chfn needs similar patches to the other shadow binaries that recently got extrausers support. TEST CASE: - create a user "foo" on an Ubuntu Core system - run "chfn --extrausers -f some-name foo" on an Ubuntu Core system REGRESSION POTENTIAL: - low: this requires the new (and optional) --extrausers switch to change anything. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1495580/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
