[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#71027: marked as done ([TO CLOSE 20050330] usermod infinite recursion)
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Package: passwd
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Setting up telnetd (0.16-4) ...
adduser: `usermod -G utmp telnetd' exited from signal 139. Aborting.
Cleaning up.
dpkg: error processing telnetd (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
-root@davenant:~> usermod -G utmp telnetd
[ process groups to 34Mb, I get bored, press ^C ]
-root@davenant:~>
Sep 5 22:15:09 davenant usermod[21469]: add `telnetd' to group `utmp'
Sep 5 22:15:29 davenant last message repeated 76158 times
I manually added telnetd to group utmp with vipw and then all went
well.
Ian.
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From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#71027: Is this bug still relevant?
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Quoting Ian Jackson (ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk):
> It didn't look like a race to me, rather a plain bug.
>
> I would be happy for this report to be closed if usermode in the
> current version of passwd is capable of executing
> usermod -G <group> <user>
> but I think someone should test it ...
>
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# members audio
bubulle milou dvd
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# usermod -G audio tintin
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# members audio
bubulle milou dvd tintin
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# ls -l /etc/group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 941 2005-03-31 07:08 /etc/group
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# grep audio /etc/group
audio:x:29:bubulle,milou,dvd,tintin
root@mykerinos:/etc/pam.d# grep audio /etc/gshadow
audio:*::bubulle,tintin,milou,dvd
Hence closing..:-)