Bug#317012: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317012: fixed in shadow 1:4.0.3-37

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 06:04:11PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Marc Haber (mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de):
> > found #317012 1:4.0.3-39
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:49:26PM -0400, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > >    * Upstream bugs not fixed in upstream releases or CVS:
> > >      - 443_chage_exit_values
> > >        chage: change the exit value to 3 when chage fails because the system is
> > >        not shadow enabled.
> > >        Closes: #317012
> > 
> > That doesn't seem to work reliably, see #328090.
> 
> root at mykerinos:~# shadowconfig off
> Shadow passwords are now off.
> root at mykerinos:~# chage spongebob
> chage: the shadow password file is not present
> root at mykerinos:~# echo $?
> 3
> 
> What else could be done?

Maybe it would be an idea to debug with the bug reporter of #328090
why his chage is returning 1 after saying "can't open shadow password
file", which is a differently worded error message from the one you
have cited. Maybe there is another code path in chage which still
returns 1?

Greetings
Marc

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