[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#661802: passwd: useradd does not return 13 if fails to create mail spool

[Denis Silakov]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

According to man page, useradd should exit with code '13' if it can't create
mail spool. In reality, useradd just prints warning and exits with code '0'.
Either useradd should be improved or man page should be updated.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric'), (100, 'oneiric-backports')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.0.2          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.13-20ubuntu5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam-modules            1.1.3-2ubuntu1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                  1.1.3-2ubuntu1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1               2.0.98-1.1     SELinux runtime shared libraries

passwd recommends no packages.

passwd suggests no packages.

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