Package: bind9
Version: 1:9.3.2-P1.0-1
Severity: important

The bind9 installation appears to fail when shadow passwords are disabled

Adding group `bind' (GID 112) ...
Done.
Adding system user `bind' (UID 107) ...
Adding new user `bind' (UID 107) with group `bind' ...
chage: the shadow password file is not present
/usr/bin/chage failed with return code 15, shadow not enabled, password aging 
cannot be set. Continuing.
Not creating home directory `/var/cache/bind'.
wrote key file "/etc/bind/rndc.key"
Starting domain name service...: bind.                                          
                                                                                
                                                   
                                     
Enabling shadow passwords and removing / reinstalling resolves the issue.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-xen
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bind9 depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.97           Add and remove users and groups
ii  libbind9-0                1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdns21                  1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 DNS Shared Library used by BIND
ii  libisc11                  1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 ISC Shared Library used by BIND
ii  libisccc0                 1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 Command Channel Library used by BI
ii  libisccfg1                1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 Config File Handling Library used 
ii  liblwres9                 1:9.3.2-P1.0-1 Lightweight Resolver Library used 
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8c-3       SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-15         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                   4.25           Basic TCP/IP networking system

bind9 recommends no packages.

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