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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 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?

I'd prefer having a dedicated error level since just checking for
non-zero will probably cause "real" errors to be ignored.

Greetings
Marc-

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