[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1126595: dbus-system-bus-common: fatal: The user `messagebus' already exists and has a password

[Santiago Vila]

Hi.

If edit /etc/shadow by hand and remove the "*", like this:

messagebus:!:20294::::::

then I can "apt-get build-dep gcp" again inside the chroot.

Simple questions:

- It is correct or incorrect for trixie images to have "!*" in the
messagebus user?

- It is correct or incorrect for adduser/useradd to say that the user
has a password when it has "!*"?

Note that regardless of the supported/unsupported status of schroot
backend of sbuild, the above issues may have implications regarding
upgrades from trixie to forky.

Thanks.