Bug#249372: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#249372: "Please enable login for GNU/Hurd": Can someone summarize this bug report?

[Christian Perrier]

> This means that e.g. useradd will fail because of
> > uid_min = getdef_unum ("UID_MIN", 1000);
> and the same with all other utils. What's more boring
> is that a util will fail almost quietly because error is
> logged through syslog (to auth.log on my system) and
> there's nothing on stderr.
> 
> I think we should place login.defs in shadow-common.


....which would exist just for providing login.defs? I'm definitely
not fond of this, actually.

Better fix the code so that passwd utilities do NOT require login.defs
and use sane defaults.