Bug 6449

Summary:	newusers don't work
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	José Eduardo Martins <jemartins>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	arnaud.patard, lmenut, mageia, stormi-mageia, tmb
Version:	2	Keywords:	PATCH, Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-9.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description José Eduardo Martins 2012-06-13 21:54:41 CEST

Description of problem:

I can't create new user using newusers program.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-9.mga1

How reproducible:

Try create a new user with /usr/sbin/newusers

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo /usr/sbin/newusers

2. Enter a valid line:
   test123:::users:::

3. See the output:

Can't update shadow file.
pam_chauthtok: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
line 1 user test123

Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-13 18:01:50 CEST

CC: (none) => cazzaniga.sandro, tmb

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 18:31:48 CEST

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
As there is no maintainer for this package I added the committers in CC.

(Please assign the bug to you and set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => arnaud.patard, lmenut, mageia, stormi

José Eduardo Martins 2013-08-27 18:54:11 CEST

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 2 José Eduardo Martins 2013-08-27 18:59:31 CEST

Thank you for your reply.

I noticed that the problem was solved in shadow-utils-4.1.5.1-5.mga3

Sandro CAZZANIGA 2013-08-27 19:09:03 CEST

CC: cazzaniga.sandro => (none)

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-27 19:22:49 CEST

(sorry, my comment about setting the status was unclear: it was targeted at the packager who would take care of this)

Adding PATCH keyword since I think one of the commits that were made to shadow-utils during Mageia 3 development fixed the problem you still see in Mageia 2.

Keywords: (none) => PATCH
Status: ASSIGNED => NEW

Comment 4 Colin Guthrie 2013-08-27 19:25:26 CEST

I'd hazard a guess at http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=327373

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:20:53 CEST

This message is a reminder that Mageia 2 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'.

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Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.

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Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-23 16:16:25 CET

Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD