[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#249372: Please enable login for GNU/Hurd

[Michael Banck]

Hey people,

this patch got applied a while ago, which makes /bin/login being
provided by the login package and passwd Depend on it.  Thus,
shadow/passwd/login is broken on Debian GNU/Hurd right now, and
consequently postinsts trying to add users (like openssh, hurd) fail and
thus installation of Debian GNU/Hurd is impossible right now.

What was the rationale for switching to shadow for login?

Just removing /bin/login from the Hurd package is not enough, the login
shell will just execute shadow's login binary and fail miserably.

Is anybody going to provide a solution for the hurd package in the next
couple of days?  If not, I will request this to be reverted.


thanks,

Michael

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