[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#386293: passwd: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow

[Kurt Roeckx]

Hi,

I just ran into this problem too.

I manually added the user and group to /etc/passwd, /etc/group.  I also
needed to edit /etc/shadow because passwd was once installed in the
chroot and enabled it.  You get some strange error messages if
/etc/shadow exists, but the user isn't in it.

Removing the passwd package still keeps it enabled.  Anyway, I didn't
know about gshadow, so I didn't fix that.

I don't have passwd installed in my chroot because it's not essential.
This also means that apt does not prompt about removing it.  It might be
a required package, but nothing says you can't remove those.

I've just tried turning it off, which failed because the group was
missing, so I added it and turned it off, which fixed things for me.
But it's now enabled again, since passwd was installed again, and the
group is added again.


Kurt