[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#319136: passwd: config script silently fails if invalid group file is present

[Marc Haber]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.3-38
Severity: normal

Hi,

the config script fails with exit code 1 (but without error message)
if shadowconfig fails, for example when a syntax error is found in the
group file.

A little more error checking would be good.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-23      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-23      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  login                       1:4.0.3-38   system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

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