[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317012: Detect chage failure when no shadow passwords are used

[Christian Perrier]

root@mykerinos:~# shadowconfig off
Shadow passwords are now off.
root@mykerinos:~# chage tintin
chage=A0: impossible d'ouvrir le fichier des mots de passe cach=E9sroot@m=
ykerinos:~# echo $?
1


So, chage fails with an errorlevel set to 1 when there are no active
shadow passwords. Isn't that enough for adduser to detect the failure
and behave appropriately?

Or do you mean you'd prefer having a dedicated error level?



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