Russ supplied a patch to allow update-passwd to use debconf for
prompting, which I've now merged after some tweaking between us. As of
base-passwd 3.5.30, all these accounts will have their shells changed to
/usr/sbin/nologin, with debconf prompts at priority medium defaulting to
true.
Thanks, Ru
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reopen 274229
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On 11/1/2013 3:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Phillip, given the above background, would you be willing to modify
> the libuuid package to use /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin instead
> of /bin/sh for the shell for the libuuid user?
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:42:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Colin Watson writes:
> > However, there's an awkward problem blocking the change, namely #184979.
> > The last time I made any change to passwd.master or group.master that
> > caused update-passwd to prompt everyone to accept it was i
Colin Watson writes:
> However, there's an awkward problem blocking the change, namely #184979.
> The last time I made any change to passwd.master or group.master that
> caused update-passwd to prompt everyone to accept it was in December
> 2004. Since then, the policy manual has been updated to
severity 184979 important
block 274229 by 184979
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 09:26:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Even if the risk is low, I see absolutely no reason why these accounts
> should have valid shells, and therefore don't understand why we wouldn't
> want to just change them to /u
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