[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#622765: passwd: 'grpck -s' removes NIS lines from /etc/group

[Christian Andretzky]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze

The subject says more or less all.

The command 'grpck -s' removes all NIS related lines from /etc/group without any
user-notification (neither a message (neither to stderr nor to logfile), nor a returncode different
from 0)

As a workaround something like the following sequence could be used:

        grep -v "^[[:blank:]]*[+-]" ${GroupFile} | sort -n -t: -k 3 > ${TmpFile}
        grep "^[[:blank:]]*[+-]" ${GroupFile} >> ${TmpFile}

        chmod --reference=${GroupFile} ${TmpFile}
        chown --reference=${GroupFile} ${TmpFile}

	if [ -n "$( diff ${GroupFile} ${TmpFile} )" ]; then
	        mv ${TmpFile} ${GroupFile}
	fi

Cheers, Christian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam-modules                1.1.1-6.1  Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-6.1  Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

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