[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#529897: login: sg does not return error code of run command

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.3.1-1
Severity: normal

# sh -c false; echo $?
1
# sg list false; echo $?
0

This is particularly problematic when sg is used in a script. The
script has no way of knowing whether the run command has failed or
not; this leads to e.g. the mailman package's postinst to ignore some
errors on configure.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                1.0.1-9    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                1.0.1-9    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-9    Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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