Bug#337952: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#337952: pwck: Should not complain about nobody's /nonexistent homedir

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Mon Nov 7 17:15:41 UTC 2005


tags 337952 wontfix
thanks

Quoting Christian Hammers (ch at debian.org):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> Severity: normal
> 
> # pwck
> user nobody: directory /nonexistent does not exist
> pwck: no changes
> 
> That user was created by Debian and thus can be supposed to be ok, I guess.
> Complaining about this directory might not only give users a bad feeling but
> also prevents from running pwck as cronjob without "grep -v" circumventings.


This issue was dealt in #231340.

As it seems likely that such bug is opened again if I close it, then
let's just tag it.

pwck job is to report inconsistencies in the passwd database and by
doing so, it just does the said job.









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