[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Pkg-shadow-commits] r339 - trunk/debian

[Nicolas François]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:09:31AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Nicolas François (nicolas.francois@centraliens.net):
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:25:40PM +0000, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> > > Log:
> > > Enforce /var/log/faillog permissions
> > 
> > If you tried a pre-released package, you should check your
> > /var/log/faillog permissions.
> > (root:root,0644)
> 
> I don't understand and I don't have access to IRC right now.
> 
> I suppose this is a reference to the following in login.postinst:
> 
> if [ ! -f /var/log/faillog ] ; then
> .../...
> fi

Yes, if you installed a box with a post-woody Debian, the faillog file was
not created, and should have been created by this pre-release package.

If at the time of this pre-release package installation, your umask was
not 0022, this file may have been created with different permissions.

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Nekral