[Adduser-devel] Bug#375524: cdebootstrap: exim4-config doesn't install; adduser is failing with chage, logic error.

[Junichi Uekawa]

Package: adduser
Version: 3.90

    my $chage = &which('chage');
    print "$chage -M 99999 $new_name\n" if ($verbose > 1);
    # do _not_ use systemcall() here, since systemcall() dies on
    # non-zero exit code and we need to do special handling here!
    if (&systemcall($chage, '-M', '99999', $new_name)) {
        if( ($?>>8) ne 15 ) {
            &cleanup("$0: `$chage -M 99999 $new_name' returned error code " . ($?>>8) . ".  Aborting.\n")
              if ($?>>8);
            &cleanup("$0: `$chage -M 99999 $new_name' exited from signal " . ($?&255) . ".  Aborting.\n");
        } else {
            printf (gtx("%s failed with return code 15, shadow not enabled, password aging cannot be set. Continuing.\n"), $chage);
        }
    }


Why are you calling systemcall here? It used to be

    if (system('/usr/bin/chage', '-M', '99999', $new_name)) {









root at dancer64:/# chage -M 99999 Debian-exim
chage: the shadow password file is not present
root at dancer64:/# echo $?
15
root at dancer64:/# shadowconfig on
Shadow passwords are now on.
root at dancer64:/# chage -M 99999 Debian-exim
root at dancer64:/# echo $?
0
root at dancer64:/# shadowconfig off
Shadow passwords are now off.
root at dancer64:/# chage -M 99999 Debian-exim
chage: the shadow password file is not present
root at dancer64:/# echo $?
15


O: Setting up exim4-config (4.62-2) ...
P: Configuring package exim4-config
O: hostname:
O: Host name lookup failure
O:
O: hostname:
O: Host name lookup failure
O:
O: Adding system-user for exim (v4)
O: chage: the shadow password file is not present
O: adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 Debian-exim' returned error code 15.  Aborting.


-O: 4838 files and directories currently installed.)
-O: Unpacking adduser (from .../bootstrap/adduser_3.87_all.deb) ...
+O: 4856 files and directories currently installed.)
+O: Unpacking adduser (from .../bootstrap/adduser_3.90_all.deb) ...

-O: Unpacking exim4-config (from .../exim4-config_4.62-1_all.deb) ...
+O: Unpacking exim4-config (from .../exim4-config_4.62-2_all.deb) ...


regards,
	junichi
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