[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#793399: pwconv: failed to change the mode of /etc/passwd- to 0600

[Duncan Eastoe]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.2-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Running pwconv when /etc/passwd- does not exist, and when there is no action
required by pwconv in /etc/passwd, results in the error "pwconv: failed to
change the mode of /etc/passwd- to 0600". This is because the /etc/passwd-
backup file will not be created when no action is taken on /etc/passwd and then
it tries to chmod the non-existent file.

I provided a patch (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-
devel/2015-February/010551.html) that was applied upstream (https://github.com
/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/17887b216d6d8292870c572ce4be950cc4077f2a).

Please could the patch be applied in the Jessie shadow package?

The extraneous error appears in the logs during boot up of a Debian Live image:

Jul 22 12:05:50 debian pwconv[302]: failed to change the mode of /etc/passwd-
to 0600
<snip>
Jul 22 12:05:51 debian live-config[238]: live-config: debconf hostname user-
setuppwconv: failed to change the mode of /etc/passwd- to 0600

Thanks,
Duncan



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils     4.4+b1
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libc6           2.19-18
ii  libpam-modules  1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsemanage1    2.3-1+b1

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