Control: fixed -1 1:4.4-1 Hi Duncan,
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:38:11 +0100 Duncan Eastoe <deas...@brocade.com> wrote: > Package: passwd > Version: 1:4.2-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > Running pwconv when /etc/passwd- does not exist, and when there is no action > required by pwconv in /etc/passwd, results in the error "pwconv: failed to > change the mode of /etc/passwd- to 0600". This is because the /etc/passwd- > backup file will not be created when no action is taken on /etc/passwd and > then > it tries to chmod the non-existent file. > > I provided a patch (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow- > devel/2015-February/010551.html) that was applied upstream (https://github.com > /shadow-maint/shadow/commit/17887b216d6d8292870c572ce4be950cc4077f2a). > > Please could the patch be applied in the Jessie shadow package? I'm sorry but we are very close to Stretch's release and since the workaround is rather simple I think it would make little sense to back-port this fix. At least it is fixed in Stretch already. Cheers, Balint
