[Adduser-devel] Bug#298883: adduser --system should add users without expire period
Marc Haber
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 298883@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:10:34 +0100
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:10:28PM +0100, Gerhard Schrenk wrote:
> 'adduser --system' adds apparently users with expire and warn period
> from /etc/login.defs
>
> For example it reads the following setting in /etc/login.defs
> PASS_MAX_DAYS 183
> PASS_MIN_DAYS 0
> PASS_WARN_AGE 183
>
> Example: After 1/2 year after upgrading to sarge logcheck (which added a
> new system user) suddenly stopped mailing its reports.
Yuck.
Did the account actually have a password?
Can you please verify whether useradd -x 99999 will create an account
without that restriction?
The only possible fix for _adduser_ would be to ignore PASS_MAX_DAYS
for system account creation. Is that what you're suggesting?
Greetings
Marc
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