adduser maintainers
act in bad faith. We Don't.
*t
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Package: samba
Version: 2:4.22.1+dfsg-1
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Dear Maintainer,
I have the same issue in SAMBA 4.22.1+dfsg-1
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 12:18:42PM -0400, Jason Franklin wrote:
Marc, do you think this is reasonable?
I am still not a fan. That additional language needs to be maintained,
translated, proofread, and discussed. I'd rather not having to do that.
Greetings
d user unit, socket
activated. This works for me on KDE with Wayland, and I think this bug
can be closed.
Greetings
Marc
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 11:14:47PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2025, Marc Haber wrote:
I am totally not sure whether this is appropriate. I agree that this
behavior is a quick of many operating systems, but I don't think
that adduser should begin to document operating s
Hi,
I am totally not sure whether this is appropriate. I agree that this
behavior is a quick of many operating systems, but I don't think that
adduser should begin to document operating system quirks. People might
see this as an issue in adduser, which it isn't.
Greetings
Marc
O
your quick response.
I now understand why this behavior is the same on Debian Trixie.
Apologies for the severity; I thought it was a simple build issue. I
think you can close this bug report permanently.
Best regards
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Done
Package thunderbird is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'thunderbird' has no installation candidate
Thanks in advance for you help
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 03:43:27PM +, hyuw77yckxszm...@firemail.cc wrote:
> On 2025-04-09 15:17, Marc Haber wrote:
> > So you're upgrading from unstable, 2.10.0.3 to unstable, 2.11.1-1.
> > Right?
>
> Upgraded, done. Afte
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 04:10:26PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 13.04.2025 um 15:24 schrieb Marc Haber:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 03:40:54PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Would
ConditionUser=!@system
be an option here for those user services?
my ansible user is not in the system user range
unit to be stopped on logout.
Greetings
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:39:14PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Marc, what does this command show for you?
gpgconf --list-options gpg-agent | grep ^enable-ssh-agent:
Nothing.
Can you see anything in the per-user journal for the system user related
to gpg-agent? as the system user in
moved all atop logs, ran apt again and now it finally finishes
without complaints.
Can you reproduce the issue with the backed up logs? In that case, can
you run postinst configure with bash -x so that we can see what the
script actually tries to do?
Greetings
Le 06/04/2025 à 21:10, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit :
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 6.1.129-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear kernel support team,
Could you please set CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG (Error
ftpmaster didn't like cdbs. I have never understood
that stance and ftpmaster didnt bother to explain.
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 09:05:30PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
Do you have a system, where you still are able to reproduce the
problem?
No, the machine has been retired in the mean time.
Greetings
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lf-lang.blogspot.com/2024/11/multi-tenant-saas-notes-web-application_43.html
More examples, see Articles section on https://golf-lang.com
- Maintainance and packaging does not need additional help.
Sponsor is needed.
Where does the long package description end and comments about the
packag
Le 06/04/2025 à 21:10, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit :
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 6.1.129-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear kernel support team,
Could you please set CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG (Error
in advance
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name without a good reason.
Agreed. Please suggest a better value for commentre. I have also asked
the shadow/passwd maintainer for their input since its their tool that
needs to handle the input as well.
Greetings
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Hi,
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
Package: firmware-atheros
Version: 20230210-5
Severity: grave
Dear maintainers,
It seems there is one
Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Conclusions:
It seems there is one issue on this package
Thanks in advance for you help
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 07:47:03AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 06:52:07 +0200 Marc Haber
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 10:32:45PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>- Mar 24 13:59: first of several suggestions for implementation
>details and improvements on MR
Which MR
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
On 30/03/2025 at 09:23, Marc Haber wrote:
I hope to get away in adduser without that, since I'd
like to keep adduser's dependencies minimal (it's being used in the
installer).
Maybe I am missing something but the
stems in a worse way
than the solution proposed by the TC breaks other systems.
Greetings
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 10:32:45PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote:
- Mar 24 13:59: first of several suggestions for implementation
details and improvements on MR
Which MR are we talking about here? I'd like to read up on that.
Greetings
t gpg itself start a gpg-agent as a long running daemon the first
time it needs it.
It is probably enough to have an ssh-agent running on the side of the
ssh client to invoke a gpg agent on the server side? I am not using gpg
in any way here.
Greetings
rvd in a separate package. But, given that we're going
into soft freeze in two weeks, I'd like to not touch the packaging of
sudo before trixie.
I planned to explore sudo_logsrvd in a test environmtn in later spring,
but if you're back then I don't need
debconf template in:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/aide/-/merge_requests/14
Acknowledged. Thanks for the heads-up.
How would I add the "Closes: #1101638" line to the commit message before
merging?
Gree
x27;m open for suggestions.
Greetings
Marc
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n adduser's comment sanitation regex on useradd
Yes. That would be the way to go. I am open for suggestions. We should
probably allow the complete UTF-8 range (short of control characters)
here.
Greetings
Marc
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We should test that adduser does the right things when weird characters
are given in the comment field.
Greetings
Marc
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
On 2025-03-28 Marc Haber wrote:
from the README:
|Since 2.1.17, users on machines with systemd will have their gpg-agent
|process launched automatically by systemd's user session, upon first
|access of any of the expecte
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:02:40PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Most of adduser's autopkgtests are invoked from here:
>
> Test-Command: /usr/bin/prove -v debian/tests/f
> Depends: adduser, cron, perl, login
> Restrictions: needs-root
>
> That's wrong. We
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:24:23PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Marc Haber, le jeu. 27 mars 2025 22:01:18 +0100, a ecrit:
This is also present in the current version of adduser, 3.149. May I ask why
you were testing with a version from half a year ago?
It just happens that I haven't up
isted accounts. There should also be an option to start gpg-agent
for normal users, that might default to yes, but it should be possible
to turn it off.
Greetings
Marc
d to cater for that.
Greetings
Marc
use File::Temp;
+ require File::Temp;
};
if ($@) {
$install_more_packages = 1;
Greetings
Marc
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ishes again.
Greetings
Marc
ght place to be reporting this; if so, where would be?
The exim upstream sources contain an src/configure.default. I think most
of our exim4.conf.template is generated from patching this file.
Greetings
Marc
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on your
system so that I can try writing a test case
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/lwtheme/blue
gradient base White debian swirl VISDO.png-1680x1050 at
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserCommon.pm line 141, <$findpipe> line 17
So you have files containing whitespace in their file name in /etc/skel?
Greeting
Aldeeran"
esac
a real life exemple can be seen here:
https://git.unistra.fr/mc/dot/-/blob/main/bin/tsveverything?ref_type=heads#L44
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avior, might be caused by trying to sanitize
the data here before passing it to logger(1).
Can you try tweaking the regexp in AdduserLogging.pm Line 149 for a
quick diagnosis?
Greetings
Marc
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 01:42:07PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
* Marc Haber [250315 11:30]:
That's an Oops.
This should probably be fixed before trixie.
Well, we shipped bookworm with the warning.
Yes, but adduser now claims to be silent for system user creation if
everythi
an 13.
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mand may only be run with no arguments.
So
%minecraft ALL= NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl ^start minecraft@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$
might also work, but this still doesn't give any indication that your
mixture of a regexp and a string literal works.
Greetings
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Cc'ed.
Greetings
Marc
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 12:47:44PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Is it possible to try this trivial patch:
>
> diff --git a/adduser b/adduser
> index 109d2ed..8d3820a 100755
> --- a/adduser
> +++ b/adduser
> @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ log_trace("actio
re trixie.
If you have any questions in regard of what adduser does to make your
life as package maintainer easier, or have comments, please get in touch
with addu...@packages.debian.org or file a bug against adduser.
Greetings
Marc
cision as the
passwd maintainer. Adduser would really not prefer to throw useradd's
warnings to /dev/null to silence this. I would appreciate if this
warning could be suppressed for the static system UID range defined in
Debian Policy chapter 9.2.2
Greetings
Marc
gin anyway even without an explicit
request.
I will file another bug about the postinst's complexity in due time, but
this here needs quick fixing as it holds a key package in unstable.
Greetings
Marc
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APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (5
Hi Simon,
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 03:34:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 at 15:20:35 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
I haven't really thought about those upgrading things, but I took
from this discussion that preinst and postinst scripts are likely to
run with pre-upg
and include it with the bug report that might make it easier to
help you.
Greetings
Marc
27;t, it's a bug in adduser which I would ask you to report.
If you apply this for trixie, you might need a versioned dependency on
adduser >= 3.145 or test with bookworm's adduser as well (it might be
non-silent on the console but should yield the same res
be chowned to the correct user.
Adding --no-create-home turns off both messages, but that would need
that nearly all packages saying --home would also need to say
--no-create-home.
What does the team think about this?
Greetings
Marc
es do it.
In addition, in trixie, the scaffolding you're using around your adduser
calls is no longer necessary.
A single call of
adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jabberd2 --no-create-home jabber
will already do it.
Greetings
Marc
mmit and upload?
adduser doesn't rely on BASH_ENV and it is probably better if this
environment variable is not passed down (any more) to the called
programs anyway.
adduser autopkgtests do pass with this change.
Greetings
Marc
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 03:23:15PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
I'm sorry if this is a
disappointment.
It is not. It gave me valuable insight, and you're probably right on all
counts. Thanks for being so open.
Gree
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 02:13:48PM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 at 09:57:57 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:41:26AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 11:21:01 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
I am afraid that our efforts in making adduser
Hi Simon,
I owe you an answer.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:41:26AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 11:21:01 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
I am afraid that our efforts in making adduser easier to use in
maintainer script have mainly occurred during the trixie release, so
if you
. This is the reason for the bug I
have.
Not being a initramfs-tools maintainer, it works with the Debian kernel.
I'd recommend downgrading this bug to normal or minor. It doesn't
warrant a RC severity.
Gree
F_MISMATCH=y
[4/5413]mh@swivel:~ $
I am using the Debian kernel on unstable.
Greetings
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ous kernel with previous generated initramfs (0.145)
> works. Downgrading to 0.145 and rebuilding initramfs makes system work again.
Just for the record, initramfs-tools 0.146 works on my Thinkpad T14
which also has a NVME disk.
Greetings
Marc
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 12:10:14PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Otoh, shuold deluser (without --system) delete a system account? The
> manpage says that deluser without --system will delete a non-system
> account, should we enforce that?
Enforcing this will render some packages buggy, na
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 03:38:10PM +, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Am Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 08:57:24PM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:46:35PM +, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Am Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 08:17:07PM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 0
enforce that?
This has surfaced when writing symmetric test cases.
Greetings
Marc
rv/build# adduser --disabled-password
--comment "" --uid 4006 u4006
root@salida-sid-buildd-amd64-xzcp:/srv/build# adduser --disabled-password
--comment "" --uid 4007 u4006
fatal: The user `u4006' already exists.
root@salida-sid-buildd-amd64-xzcp:/srv/build#
Greetings
Marc
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 12:04:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> (1)
> adduser foo
> adduser --system (must fail, 'already exists as a non-system user')
That is the case, we check that.
> (2)
> adduser --uid 100 foo
> adduser --uid 101 foo (must fail, &#x
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> >1. For a system account, there would still be an issue if the account↲
> >has a password (if possible). If EXISTING_ID_MISMATCH is set, this↲
> >would also yield an issue; I think that this is possible if the --uid↲
Package: adduser
Version: 3.144
Severity: normal
Hi,
existing_*_status should have a bit for EXISTING_HAS_PASSWORD so that
adduser --system --disabled-password can error out if the account has a
password.
Greetings
Marc
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 07:46:35PM +, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Am Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 08:17:07PM +0100 schrieb Marc Haber:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:00:27PM +, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Please find the updated German po file translation for adduser
> attached.
That's what
n: adduser 3.138\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: addu...@packages.debian.org\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2023-06-09 12:08+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2025-03-06 17:59+0100\n"
How would I rectify that quickly to avo
a-sid-buildd-amd64-coce:/srv#
This should not happen.
Greetings
Marc
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On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 07:45:13AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Would you be willing to submit test cases so that we can have QUOTAUSER
> tested during package build? We would also appreciate code that has
> adduser error out more nicely (preferably before doing an
do so post-trixie.
Greetings
Marc
ipt)?
My opinion is that it is bad practice to have a system account with a
password and that we should not begin supporting that after not doing it
for at least 20 years.
Greetings
Marc
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de is desired, maybe it's a good
idea to add --mode=unshare to autopkgtest-virt-unshare line 80 anyway?
Greetings
Marc
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> this is a discussion with Vincent Lefevre on #1099470:
> >1. For a system account, there would still be an issue if the account↲
> >has a password (if possible). If EXISTING_ID_MISMATCH is set, this↲
> >would a
have opened #1099570 and would
appreciate if you could add possible command chains that we could use
for these test cases.
Greetings
Marc
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Package: adduser
Version: 3.144
Severity: important
Hi,
this is a discussion with Vincent Lefevre on #1099470:
>1. For a system account, there would still be an issue if the account↲
>has a password (if possible). If EXISTING_ID_MISMATCH is set, this↲
>would also yield an issue; I think that this
rzealous dependencies on perl versions, that should not apply
when upgrading inside unstable, and is fixed in git.
I am available on IRC if that helps.
Greetings
Marc
bug was observed with
adduser 3.143, which had a bug in this part of the code. Please retry
with adduser 3.144.
Greetings
Marc
scaffolding in maintainer scripts to make the maintainer scripts easy.
Please retry with adduser 3.144 from unstable
What was the passwd and shadow entry of the messagebus user when this
happened?
Greetings
Marc
gebus /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/passwd:messagebus:x:103:109::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> /etc/group:messagebus:x:109:
Is that an older installation? What does the messagebus line in
/etc/shadow say?
Greetings
Marc
On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 01:41:28PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-03-04 10:40:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 08:11:10AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > I expect a fix for this adduser issue for later today and apologize for
> > > the p
difference whether the values are from
AdduserCommon.pm or overridden by the configuration file.
If you have the time, can you compare trace output on your system please?
Greetings
Marc
> This is the opposite. The upgrade fails for system accounts that are
> not locked (those without an exclamation point).
Just to get the terminology straight: How would you call an account that
has * as a password in /etc/shadow?
Greetings
Marc
On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 08:11:10AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I expect a fix for this adduser issue for later today and apologize for
> the problem. There is no need to debug other packages until adduser
> 3.144 is uploaded.
Can you try this trivial change?
diff --git a/adduser b/addu
. There is no need to debug other packages until adduser
3.144 is uploaded.
Greetings
Marc
name in this mode.
root@swivel-sid-buildd-amd64-nhes:/srv#
The first adduser foo _hippotat should work and add the user to the
_hippotat group. We should not be sanitizing the group name this
restrictively for the two-argument case adding user to group
Greetings
Marc
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trixie; I'd like to give the code more test coverage and more
possibility to break.
Greetings
Marc
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 10:14:37AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 at 07:20:59 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
dbus-system-bus-common's postinst makes relly sure that adduser behaves
policy compliant
...
That is kind of redundant since system users already get a disabled
pas
mod is not present in
bash-completion 1:2.16.0-7.
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OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
adduser --system --group "$MESSAGEUSER" will already do what
is policy compliant.
Please consider simplifying your adduser call, or maybe migrate to
systemd-sysusers which might actually fit the systemd/dbus universe
better.
Greetings
Marc
P.S.: The explicit call to --no-create-home has triggered 1
--no-create-home \
--disabled-password \
--group "$MESSAGEUSER"
fi
The explicit --no-create-home turns on the warning. I think that adduser
should be quiet in that case, but also dbus should just say "adduser
--system "$MESSAGEUSER".
Greetings
Marc
Some of the message levels have been adapted, so adduser --system should
> now be completely silent if everything is fine. If adduser --systems
> still prints things that are not necessary during flawless operation,
> this is a bug. Please report it.
>
> -- Marc Haber
Try this patch please
diff --git a/AdduserLogging.pm b/AdduserLogging.pm
index 1fe4743..51c45fa 100644
--- a/AdduserLogging.pm
+++ b/AdduserLogging.pm
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ sub logmsglevel {
sub check_sys_admin {
# this checks for SYS_ADMIN privilege, see #1074567
return $has_sys_admin if defined $h
t adduser to assume that it does not have
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in that case?
Greetings
Marc
ries/zg reprepro -Vb .
rereference
but that didn't help. Would it help to go through the more complicated
recovery of packages.db?
I'd appreciate the package maintainer to chime in here, the issue has
been around for more than a week now.
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Marc
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