[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#352494: passwd: confusing error message if /proc is not found

[Marc Haber]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.14-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

invoking "passwd foo" in a chroot without /proc mounted results in the
error message "passwd: You may not view or modify password information
for foo".

Please have this changed to a little less misleading message.

Thanks to strace, I found the real cause for the problem pretty fast.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.15.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   1.28-4     SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                         1:4.0.14-5 system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

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