Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-12-03 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:38:41PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sam Couter writes: > > > I use the SSH authentication and transport method, which means Amanda > > uses SSH to connect to the clients as the backup user to run amandad. I > > have set the authorized_keys file for the backup user

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Colin Watson writes: > It worries me a bit that this breaks amanda. I think this is the main > thing holding me back from closing #734946. Russ, you have more > experience of dealing with security audits that pick this up than I do; > what would you think of flipping the backup user's shell bac

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:38:41PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sam Couter writes: > > I use the SSH authentication and transport method, which means Amanda > > uses SSH to connect to the clients as the backup user to run amandad. I > > have set the authorized_keys file for the backup user to forc

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-02-06 Thread Sam Couter
Russ Allbery wrote: > I suspect that you have your debconf priority settings set to suppress > prompting. If you change the shell and then run: > > dpkg-reconfigure base-passwd > > and say no to the question of whether you want update-passwd to change the > shell, it will leave it alone and

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Couter writes: > I use the SSH authentication and transport method, which means Amanda > uses SSH to connect to the clients as the backup user to run amandad. I > have set the authorized_keys file for the backup user to force the > amandad command, but this is executed using the login shell.

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Couter
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.32 After upgrading base-passwd on the amanda clients, amcheck starts spitting out messages like the following: WARNING: fw: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: "This account is currently not available.\n" I use the SSH authentication and tr