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

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > 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.

Alternatively, we could ship a login.defs in the hurd package, once I
figured out what should be in there.

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

I tried touching /etc/login.defs, which made shadowconfig work, but IIRC
adduser still had issues (I don't have a Hurd box up at the moment to
check, though)


Michael

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