On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:12:22PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, jeff said:
> > Any symlink in /etc/skel will cause this bug, whether to file or
> > directory. I've tried it with /var and /share and /bin/bash and
> > /share/special.ods
>
> You are saying any dead symlink, or any symlink at all? If you mean
> the former, this is a known bug, fixed in later versions. If you mean
> the presence of any symlink at all causes a problem, can you please
> provide a compete listing of /etc/skel (ls -la /etc/skel and ls -l each
> file that symlinks point to) and the error output that happens on an
> adduser run.
Any symlink at all.
celeste:/etc/skel# ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-04 04:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 79 root root 4096 2006-10-03 09:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 567 2004-12-19 08:53 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1834 2004-12-19 08:53 .bashrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-10-04 04:23 var -> /var
celeste:/etc/skel# ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2006-07-25 09:59 /var
celeste:#/etc/skel# ls -ld /home/newfolk
ls: /home/newfolk: No such file or directory
celeste:/etc/skel# adduser newfolk
Adding user `newfolk'...
Adding new user `newfolk' (1017) with group `users'.
Creating home directory `/home/newfolk'.
Copying files from `/etc/skel'
Use of uninitialized value in symlink at /usr/sbin/adduser line 695,
<FIND> line 4.
symlink: No such file or directory
Cleaning up.
Removing directory `/home/newfolk'
rm: cannot remove `/home/newfolk': Permission denied
Removing user `newfolk'.
userdel: unable to lock password file
celeste:/etc/skel# rm var
celeste:/etc/skel# deluser newfolk
Removing user `newfolk'...
done.
celeste:/etc/skel# rm -rf /home/newfolk
celeste:/etc/skel# adduser newfolk
Adding user `newfolk'...
Adding new user `newfolk' (1017) with group `users'.
Creating home directory `/home/newfolk'.
Copying files from `/etc/skel'
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for newfolk
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [y/N] y
It's only on that one system, at the moment. It's come up on other
systems before, but it's not replicating right now.
Jeff
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