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

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:00:09AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

But, err..., when there's a syntax error in
/etc/group or /etc/passwd file, the whole system can be
considered broken, at least partially. Couldn't it?

Thus we have a rather legitimate reason to fail in config
script, IMHO.

Also, IIRC, the action (shadowconfig) you menion here
currently is only performed upon `dpkg-reconfigure passwd`,
and in -39th release it anyway will additionally be called
only on _fresh_ install, when there was no messing with
/etc/passwd previously...

> A little more error checking would be good.

Marc, sorry, could you please explain in more details
what you mean here?

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