[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#988530: base-passwd breaks amanda over SSH.

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Sun Jan 5 13:12:14 GMT 2025


Control: reassign -1 src:amanda

Hi amanda Maintainers,

* Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> [250105 03:04]:
> > As far as I can tell this is intended behaviour. Why are you running
> > amanda as user "backup", which has a specific, different, purpose?
> 
> Because that's how the Debian Amanda packages set things up.

Apparently your package uses the "backup" user. The user here
reports that to make things work, the shell has to be changed from
nologin. This seems incompatible with the base-passwd definition of
the "backup" user.

Could you please share your reasoning why you're not setting up an
amanda-dedicated user for this purpose?

Upgrades default to resetting base-passwd-defined users to what
base-passwd sees as correct.

Chris



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