Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 Severity: normal When creating or deleting users or groups, the shadow utilities creates lock files like /etc/group.lock, /etc/shadow.lock, etc. These lock files contain the PID of the locker, so that if the lock holder dies without unlocking the file, the lock requestor can break the lock and take ownership. One scenario that we've encountered is that if the system is restarted soon after creating new groups, the attempt to delete the locks is lost. The low PID then is used upon startup by a long-running daemon, and then the lock is never freed. A potential workaround would be to check and see if the mod date is older than the system uptime. Then one is limited to cases where the PID has wrapped and collided which is much less likely. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages passwd depends on: ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii login 1:4.0.18.1-7 system login tools passwd recommends no packages. -- debconf information: passwd/password-mismatch: passwd/username: lsiamak passwd/password-empty: passwd/make-user: true passwd/title: passwd/user-uid: passwd/shadow: true passwd/username-bad: passwd/user-fullname:
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