[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#231340: pwck complains about non-existent directory for nobody

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> root@mykerinos:~# LC_ALL=C pwck
> user nobody: directory /nonexistent does not exist

Also:
user uucp: directory /var/spool/uucp does not exist
user list: directory /var/list does not exist
user irc: directory /var/run/ircd does not exist
user gnats: directory /var/lib/gnats does not exist
user munin: directory /var/lib/munin does not exist
user debian-so: directory /lib/debian-so does not exist

> As the setting is Debian-specific, what should we doš?
> 
> 1) don't fix this and let pwck warn about this

I think we should do this.

Especially given that the real source of annoyance was
"tiger" software, which I use too and can confirm.

> 2) fix pwck so that it does not complain about nobody
> 3) add an "ignore" option for having it ignore some logins

I really don't fear the additional work/study required
for 2 and 3, but conceptually 1st way is the correct,
because whole intent of pwck is to find all even minor
inconsistencies.

P.S. maybe reassign to tiger?

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