reassign 375510 adduser 3.90 tag 375510 patch thanks Sorry for reporting this against the wrong package. It appears to be a bug in adduser, related to 316089. According to a comment in the source code, adduser should use system instead of systemcall to invoke chage so that it can handle its failure if /etc/shadow doesn't exist. The attach patch makes it do so.
-- Matt
diff -Nru adduser-3.90-orig/adduser adduser-3.90/adduser
--- adduser-3.90-orig/adduser 2006-06-26 07:18:18.000000000 -0700
+++ adduser-3.90/adduser 2006-06-26 07:19:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
print "$chage -M 99999 $new_name\n" if ($verbose > 1);
# do _not_ use systemcall() here, since systemcall() dies on
# non-zero exit code and we need to do special handling here!
- if (&systemcall($chage, '-M', '99999', $new_name)) {
+ if (system($chage, '-M', '99999', $new_name)) {
if( ($?>>8) ne 15 ) {
&cleanup("$0: `$chage -M 99999 $new_name' returned error code " .
($?>>8) . ". Aborting.\n")
if ($?>>8);
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