[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#552006: passwd: useradd fails with long lines in /etc/group

[Jörg Ludwig]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.1-6
Severity: important

Add a line longer than 8196 (!) byte in /etc/group. Then run:
# groupadd zzz
# useradd -g zzz zzz
useradd: unknown group zzz

The problem is critical because several packages fail to install/update when they create new users/groups in postinst.
The problem did not seem to occur in Debian etch.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils               2.30           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules            1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                  1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1               2.0.65-5       SELinux shared libraries

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  passwd/root-password-crypted: (password omitted)
  passwd/user-password-crypted: (password omitted)
  passwd/root-password: (password omitted)
  passwd/root-password-again: (password omitted)
  passwd/user-password-again: (password omitted)
  passwd/user-password: (password omitted)
  passwd/password-mismatch:
  passwd/username:
  passwd/password-empty:
* passwd/make-user: false
  passwd/md5: false
  passwd/title:
  passwd/user-uid:
* passwd/shadow: true
  passwd/username-bad:
  passwd/user-fullname: