Hello, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:20:21AM +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote: > > Until revision 3095 in the upstream svn, useradd and groupadd worked > just fine if /etc/passwd and /etc/group were symlinks. That revision > added the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open() in lib/commonio.c, and now those > tools fail to open /etc/passwd and /etc/group if they are symlinks. I > don't use those tools myself, but Debian package installation scripts > seem to use them. Can we go back to allowing symlinks? My system > for managing my three Debian installations is based on keeping all my > customizations in a separate directory, with symlinks from /etc/.
How did shadow behave before this change? I think that it could read successfully the files, but then it probably destroyed the links every time a change was committed. I would expect the same behavior from PAM when passwords are changed. Maybe under those conditions it's better to explicitly not support such setup and fail. Best Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
