base-passwd (3.6.3) unstable; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix non-Linux cross-builds (closes: #1057055). -- Colin Watson Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:09:27 +0000 base-passwd (3.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Peter Kjellerstedt ] * Make it possible to configure whether to use SELinux or not. [ Gioele Barabucci ] * d/postinst: Remove code for upgrades from outdated version 3.2.2. * d/control: Remove unused w3m build dependency (closes: #1051810). * Support build profile (closes: #1051809). [ Colin Watson ] * Debconf translations: - Romanian (thanks, Remus-Gabriel Chelu; closes: #1031149). - Swedish (thanks, Peter Kvillegård; closes: #1050440). * Explicitly build-depend on docbook, since otherwise the build fails if docbook-xml happens to be installed before installing build-dependencies (closes: #1033422). [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix non-Linux builds (closes: #1054098). -- Colin Watson Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:35:50 +0100 base-passwd (3.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * passwd.master: Add _apt user, in order to eventually allow dropping adduser out of Essential-plus-apt (closes: #969631). Note that this currently makes no attempt to migrate existing installations to the new uid, since a number of things like TLS certificates and firewall rules may depend on the existing uid. * debian/postinst: Fix several shellcheck issues. [ Christian Göttsche ] * update-passwd.c: - print filename on fclose error - use correct filename in copy_filemodes - drop t flag from fopen - open temporary file exclusively * replace obsolete autoconf macro -- Colin Watson Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:22:51 +0100 base-passwd (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * update-passwd(8) translations: - German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #995724). * Upgrade to debhelper v13. * Simplify some debhelper overrides slightly. * users-and-groups: - Update copyright years. - Rename ssh group to _ssh, matching openssh 1:8.4p1-6. - Document libvirt group (thanks, Guido Günther; closes: #929133). * Stop creating the gnats user and group on new installations (closes: #897264). It will not be automatically removed from existing installations. [ Yue Tao ] * update-passwd.c: set walk to walk->next before removing (closes: #1000796). [ Debian Janitor ] * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster: + Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on dpkg and dpkg-dev. [ Jonathan Hettwer ] * implement SELinux awareness (closes: #982906) [ Peter Kjellerstedt ] * Make it possible to build without debconf support or documentation generation. -- Colin Watson Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:14:12 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.52) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * update-passwd.8: Document that backup copies of modified files are left with the extension ".org" (closes: #993717). [ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ] * Support DPKG_ROOT in preinst and postinst (closes: #990122). -- Colin Watson Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:02:16 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.51) unstable; urgency=medium [ Raf Czlonka ] * update-passwd.8: Environment variables are 'set'. [ Brian Murray ] * update-passwd.c: Skip debconf question when changing irc's home directory from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd, since these are equivalent (closes: #990879). -- Colin Watson Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:57:43 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.50) unstable; urgency=medium * Allocate uid/gid 64065 to gnocchi, by request of Billy Olsen (closes: #983635). * Debconf translations: - Spanish (thanks, Camaleón; closes: #987337). -- Colin Watson Sun, 16 May 2021 11:23:55 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.49) unstable; urgency=medium [ Bastian Germann ] * d/copyright: Fix public-domain paragraph (closes: #972495, LP: #610108). -- Colin Watson Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:48:56 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.48) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Change ircd's home directory from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd (closes: #946884). * users-and-groups: Refer to /run/utmp rather than /var/run/utmp. [ Sven Joachim ] * Use mktemp rather than tempfile in the postinst script. -- Colin Watson Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:36:41 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.47) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat. * Adjust wildcards in debian/copyright so that all files are matched by at least one paragraph. [ Debian Janitor ] * debian/copyright: Replace commas with whitespace to separate items in Files paragraph. * Update copyright file header to use current field names (Name => Upstream-Name, Maintainer => Upstream-Contact) * Bump debhelper from old 9 to 12. * Drop unnecessary dependency on dh-autoreconf. [ Dimitri John Ledkov ] * Switch from sgmltools-lite to docbook-utils. -- Colin Watson Mon, 16 Dec 2019 23:51:51 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.46) unstable; urgency=medium [ Ondřej Nový ] * d/changelog: Remove trailing whitespaces [ Jelmer Vernooij ] * Use correct machine-readable copyright file URI. -- Colin Watson Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:10:55 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.45) unstable; urgency=medium * Set Rules-Requires-Root: no. * Allocate uid/gid 64060, 64061, and 64062 to nova, cinder, and glance respectively, by request of James Page (closes: #884178). * Move VCS to salsa.debian.org. -- Colin Watson Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:18:11 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.44) unstable; urgency=medium * users-and-groups: Remove apparently-unfounded rumour that /var/spool/cups is owned by group sys (thanks, Sven Joachim; closes: #615259). -- Colin Watson Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:48:16 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.43) unstable; urgency=medium * users-and-groups: Remove haldaemon (closes: #851455). -- Colin Watson Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:52:12 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.42) unstable; urgency=medium * update-passwd(8) translations: - French (thanks, Baptiste Jammet; closes: #844657). -- Colin Watson Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:47:28 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.41) unstable; urgency=medium * Allocate uid/gid 64055 for libvirt guest migration support, by request of Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (closes: #843881, LP: #1637601). -- Colin Watson Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:45:48 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.40) unstable; urgency=medium * Use HTTPS for git URLs. * Debconf translations: - Brazilian Portuguese (thanks, José de Figueiredo; closes: #815514). * update-passwd(8) translations: - Japanese (thanks, Takuma Yamada; closes: #819211). * Stop forcing gzip compression for .deb, as the vast majority of the rest of the base system is now xz anyway. * Policy version 3.9.8: no changes required. -- Colin Watson Tue, 16 Aug 2016 09:21:34 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.39) unstable; urgency=medium * Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required. * Build with large file support. -- Colin Watson Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:03:22 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.38) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Simplify dpkg (>= 1.16.4) | sgml-base (<< 1.26+nmu2) build-dependency (see changelog for 3.5.26) to just dpkg (>= 1.16.4), since that was some time ago and wheezy has a sufficient version now, and the more elaborate form causes a complaint from debcheck. * Allocate uid/gid 64045 for ceph object storage, by request of Gaudenz Steinlin. * Allocate uid/gid 64050 for the Evergreen ILS, by request of Robin H. Johnson. [ Juan Picca ] * Make documentation build reproducible (closes: #792520). -- Colin Watson Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:26:42 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.37) unstable; urgency=medium * Debconf translations: - Dutch (thanks, Frans Spiesschaert; closes: #765361). - Danish (thanks, Joe Hansen; closes: #765853). * Copy /etc/passwd and /etc/group from the master files in the preinst on initial install, to be more tolerant of bootstrapping tools that configure the Essential set in slightly different orders (based on a patch from Michael Tautschnig; see #766459 and #767999). -- Colin Watson Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:44:29 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.36) unstable; urgency=medium * Update Vcs-Browser URL yet again. -- Colin Watson Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:21:43 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.35) unstable; urgency=medium * Build with all hardening options (thanks, Markus). -- Colin Watson Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:15:08 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.34) unstable; urgency=medium * Debconf translations: - Italian (thanks, Beatrice Torracca; closes: #744344). * Update Vcs-Browser URL for alioth cgit. -- Colin Watson Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:10:48 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.33) unstable; urgency=medium * Debconf translations: - French (thanks, Steve Petruzzello; closes: #736506). - German (thanks, Chris Leick; closes: #738363). - Japanese (thanks, victory; closes: #740040). -- Colin Watson Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:35:41 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.32) unstable; urgency=medium * Debconf translations: - Portuguese (thanks, Américo Monteiro; closes: #735036). - Russian (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #735480). * update-passwd(8) translations: - German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #735149). - Portuguese (thanks, Américo Monteiro; closes: #735247). -- Colin Watson Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:06:09 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.31) unstable; urgency=medium * Pick up version number for "update-passwd --version" from autoconf, rather than having a separate manually-updated and out-of-date version.h. * Convert hand-crafted Makefiles to Automake. * users-and-groups: Add a little more commentary on gnats. -- Colin Watson Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:39:58 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.30) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Remove config.h.in and configure, now autogenerated by dh-autoreconf. * Change the shell of all global static users other than root (which retains /bin/sh) and sync (as /bin/sync is rather harmless) to /usr/sbin/nologin (closes: #274229; LP: #216813, #248844). * Policy version 3.9.5. [ Russ Allbery ] * Add support for debconf prompting to update-passwd (closes: #184979). -- Colin Watson Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:41:06 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.29) unstable; urgency=low * Use dh-autoreconf. * Switch to git; adjust Vcs-* fields. * Only update POT/PO files at clean time if man/Makefile exists. -- Colin Watson Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:31:23 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.28) unstable; urgency=low * Force gzip compression for .deb, to avoid causing problems for debootstrap on non-Debian-based systems following dpkg 1.17.0. -- Colin Watson Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:40:39 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.27) unstable; urgency=low * Update to Autoconf 2.69. * Convert packaging to a modern debhelper style. The original reason for avoiding helper tools in base-passwd was to ease bootstrapping; but nowadays the sensible way to bootstrap is to cross-build, and all the helper tools are Multi-Arch: foreign so can safely be used in cross-building environments. -- Colin Watson Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:04:58 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.26) unstable; urgency=low * Build-depend on dpkg (>= 1.16.4) | sgml-base (<< 1.26+nmu2) to ensure that #675613 does not cause incorrect generation of documentation (closes: #678570). -- Colin Watson Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:35:04 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.25) unstable; urgency=low * users-and-groups: Document historical meaning of sys user/group (thanks to Mantas M. for the tip). * Use dpkg-buildflags to enable hardening options (based on a patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff; closes: #655501). * Update users-and-groups documentation of the sudo group to describe current behaviour and mention pkexec (thanks, Luca Capello; closes: #650553). -- Colin Watson Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:40:25 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.24) unstable; urgency=low * Mark base-passwd Multi-Arch: foreign. -- Colin Watson Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:13:39 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.23) unstable; urgency=low * Convert to source format 3.0 (native). * Update to current DEP-5 copyright proposal (thanks, Kyle Nitzsche; part of LP #610108). * Remove unused Lintian overrides. * Add translations of update-passwd(8): - Spanish (thanks, Omar Campagne; closes: #604455). - Japanese (thanks, KURASAWA Nozomu; closes: #614377). - German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #625898). * Allocate gid 64040-64044 (grsec-tpe, grsec-sock-all, grsec-sock-clt, grsec-sock-srv, grsec-proc) for linux-grsec-base, by request of Yves-Alexis Perez. * Update Vcs-Bzr field for Alioth changes. * Allow cross-building (thanks, Peter Pearse and Wookey; closes: #631954). * Add build-arch and build-indep targets. * Fix typo in description of -v in update-passwd(8), and unfuzzy translations (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #625900). -- Colin Watson Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:52:47 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.22) unstable; urgency=low * Compress files using gzip -n (cf. debhelper 6.0.6). * Remove explicit calls to install-docs (cf. debhelper 7.2.3). -- Colin Watson Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:07:19 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.21) unstable; urgency=low * Set up the root user without a password by default, rather than giving it an empty password. In this day and age the latter is not really a defensible default (LP: #296841). * Update description of dip group, based on a suggestion by Osamu Aoki (closes: #512938). -- Colin Watson Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:37:23 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.20) unstable; urgency=medium * Document that the staff group is typically root-equivalent (thanks, Guy Hulbert). -- Colin Watson Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:20:12 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.19) unstable; urgency=low * Allocate uid/gid 64035 for hacluster/haclient (Horms, closes: #494070). * Moved to bzr.debian.org; add Vcs-Bzr control field. -- Colin Watson Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:27:12 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.18) unstable; urgency=low * Convert manual pages to UTF-8. * Update DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parsing code from policy 3.8.0. * Update a few copyright notices. * Convert to machine-readable copyright format, wiki revision 179. * Update to new section hierarchy from doc-base >= 0.8.10. -- Colin Watson Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:11:07 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.17) unstable; urgency=low * hal was renamed to haldaemon in hal 0.5.7.1-1 (closes: #452631). * Make the description of plugdev in users-and-groups slightly more generic; I don't want to end up having to list all the programs that implement it, but "can access removable devices" should be good enough (closes: #285732). * Add Russian translation of update-passwd(8) (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #461732). -- Colin Watson Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:43:50 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.16) unstable; urgency=low * Register users-and-groups with doc-base (closes: #451680). -- Colin Watson Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:44:46 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.15) unstable; urgency=low * Use autotools-dev's recommended ./configure --build and --host options (closes: #451123). -- Colin Watson Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:00:42 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.14) unstable; urgency=low * Allocate uid/gid 64030 for slurm (Gennaro Oliva, closes: #444412). * Update to Autoconf 2.61. -- Colin Watson Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:40:26 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.13) unstable; urgency=low * users-and-groups improvements from Justin Pryzby (closes: #440306): - jabberd no longer runs as daemon. - www-data no longer owns log files as of apache2. -- Colin Watson Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:21 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.12) unstable; urgency=low * Change section to admin, matching the override file. * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip (closes: #436542). -- Colin Watson Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:44:44 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.11) unstable; urgency=low * Update GPL notices with the FSF's new address. * Add po4a infrastructure and French translation of update-passwd(8) (thanks, Nicolas François; closes: #326550). * Fix syntax error in ssh group documentation. -- Colin Watson Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:51:34 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.10) unstable; urgency=low * Remove preinst, for several reasons: - the 'dpkg --assert-support-predepends' check isn't guaranteed to be effective anyway (it tests the current version of dpkg on the system, not the one that's performing the upgrade); - dpkg has supported Pre-Depends since 1996; - it unnecessarily required dpkg to have been configured when running base-passwd.preinst (#316084). * users-and-groups improvements from David Mandelberg (closes: #290237): - Document messagebus, postfix, hal, gdm, saned, klog, and syslog users and groups. - Document sshd, fetchmail, and cupsys users. - Document lpadmin, sasl, scanner, and ssh groups. - Correct "writeable" to "writable" throughout. -- Colin Watson Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:01:00 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.9) unstable; urgency=low * Add and document static group plugdev, gid 46, for use by pmount and similar tools to allow local users to mount removable devices without the need for entries in /etc/fstab (closes: #283233). -- Colin Watson Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:15:06 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.8) unstable; urgency=low * Fix typoes in README. * Clarify in README that packages may not make use of ids in the 60000-64999 range without *first* having them allocated by this package. * Allocate static uid/gid 64025 for vpopmail/vchkpw (Pawel Wiecek, closes: #270719). -- Colin Watson Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:06:00 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.7) unstable; urgency=low * Improve documentation of 'operator' (Peter Benie). * In fact, remove the 'operator' user (not group) entirely from new installations. It will not be automatically removed from existing installations. Its uses are historical and not well-supported by Debian anyway, and a local administrator can easily set up something appropriate without it having to be in everyone's /etc/passwd file (closes: #198943). -- Colin Watson Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:40:21 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.6) unstable; urgency=low * Show names of groups when changing users' group ids (closes: #217511). This incidentally means that group has to be updated before passwd, since groups might be changed in the same update-passwd run. * Update Standards-Version: to 3.6.0. Higher policy versions require prompting via debconf, which is a major code change that hasn't been done yet. -- Colin Watson Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:58:19 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.5) unstable; urgency=low * Add md5sums control file. -- Colin Watson Tue, 9 Dec 2003 02:24:15 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.4) unstable; urgency=low * Move the man pages into their own directory in the source package. * Change irc's home directory to /var/run/ircd, which seems to exist in most ircd-providing packages (closes: #198913). * Update Standards-Version: to 3.5.10. -- Colin Watson Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:45:58 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.3) unstable; urgency=low * The noautoadd flag has been broken since 3.2.0: update-passwd was looking at the wrong id. Fortunately, since noautoadd entries aren't in the master files, this didn't matter except that it caused a segfault on empty system files (closes: #189196). -- Colin Watson Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:44:55 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix groff problems, mainly the use of "-", throughout update-passwd(8). I've attempted to keep the Polish translation in step. * Allocate static uid/gid 64020 for asterisk (Jeff Noxon). * Update Standards-Version: to 3.5.9. -- Colin Watson Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:14:49 +0100 base-passwd (3.5.1) unstable; urgency=low * For consistency with the rest of group.master, don't put the lp user in its group explicitly. We pick that up from passwd.master already. * Avoid using the 'users' group for any system users (part of #25882): - Change the sync user's group to nogroup. - Change the games user's group to be the already-existing games group. - Create a man group (gid 12) and set that as the man user's group. * Don't use 'command -v' in postinst; include a pure shell implementation instead. * Make '[' argument syntax in postinst strict enough that posh can cope with it. * Change nobody's home directory to /nonexistent (the name is mostly for documentation purposes), following the BSDs (closes: #135732). * Strip update-passwd after installing it into the temporary tree, not before. * Fix a segfault while removing accounts. -- Colin Watson Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:35:18 +0000 base-passwd (3.5.0) unstable; urgency=low * Remove the postgres user and group for new installations, although not on upgrades. postgresql 7.1release-3 and up will create a user and group for itself in the system range (closes: #81222, #95557). * When using fget*ent_r(), we're supposed to reallocate larger and larger chunks of memory until we find one in which each passwd/group/shadow line fits, and there's an arbitrary limit on the length of lines because we don't. Since update-passwd is single-threaded, this is unnecessary; just use fget*ent() and copy the returned structures (closes: #109038). -- Colin Watson Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:25:32 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low * Clarify description (thanks, Filip Van Raemdonck; closes: #178170). * Make -v/--verbose, and thus the postinst, a little less verbose. A second -v option restores the previous level of verbosity. * Build with -Wall. Implement DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt. * users-and-groups: - Add Robert Bihlmeyer's comments about daemon, sys, tty, lp, and nogroup (closes: #178460). - Improvements to nobody/nogroup and operator documentation suggested by Tony Finch. - Include LSB 1.3 comments on bin and daemon. -- Colin Watson Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:01:49 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low * Build users-and-groups.txt as well as users-and-groups.html. * Clarify the purpose of group mail a little. * Per Debian policy, utmp can write to /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog as well, so document this. * Update Standards-Version: to 3.5.8. * Correct "changing shell" message to print both the original and new values (thanks, Joost van Baal; closes: #178057). * Include Polish translation of update-passwd(8) (thanks, Marcin Owsiany; closes: #160146). -- Colin Watson Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:27:09 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix a thinko that caused update-passwd never to add new passwd/group entries unless a NIS compat entry was present (closes: #174187). -- Colin Watson Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:46:39 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low * Downcase the short description, apart from "Debian" (closes: #134614). * Add initial informative documentation of the global static users and groups (closes: #50304). This is a work in progress, so feel free to send suggestions and corrections. * Ensure that new entries are added before "+" entries (which ignore the rest of the file and switch to NIS) (closes: #166756). Existing entries are reordered if and only if they're in the master files. See #130735. -- Colin Watson Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:21:46 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer. Thanks, Wichert. * Don't fail to configure if nscd isn't running (closes: #166606). * Fix typo in update-passwd's usage output (closes: #139981). * Print old value of gecos / home directory / shell as well as new value (closes: #136227). * Fix strip argument typo in debian/rules. * Change gecos for list to "Mailing List Manager" (closes: #149466). -- Colin Watson Sat, 30 Nov 2002 03:15:06 +0000 base-passwd (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low * Add new sasl group used to regulate access to the sasl secrets * Drop prerm * No longer make /usr/doc symlinks -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:35:30 +0200 base-passwd (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low * Change directory for gnats to /var/lib/gnats on new installs. Do not change it for existing systems. Closes: Bug#133121 -- Wichert Akkerman Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:44:57 +0100 base-passwd (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium * Don't reorder entries while reading them. Closes: Bug#130735 -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:36:13 +0100 base-passwd (3.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix typo in postinst prompt. Closes: Bug#130662 * Remove ancient code from Galen from the source * Relicense under just version 2 of the GNU GPL * Check for noninteractive debconf frontend and handle redirected input in the postinst. Closes: Bug#130362 * Correct extension of backup file in postinst. Closes: Bug#130366 * Remove all Linux references * Be even more paranoid in fputpwent so we can handle syntactically incorrect entries as well. Closes: Bug#130192 * Remove bashisms from debian/rules * Do a better job at stripping update-passwd -- Wichert Akkerman Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:44:28 +0100 base-passwd (3.2.3) unstable; urgency=high * Major paper brown bag release * Do not swap uid and gid in putpwent. Closes: Bug#130032 * If we are upgrading from 3.2.2 explain the uid/gid problem and offer to restore the previous passwd file -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:08:01 +0100 base-passwd (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=high * Implement our own putpwent since the GNU libc version will happily give root access to everyone when encountering NIS compat entries. Closes: Bug#123345 * Fix typo in error message when reading group files * Remove majordomo user and group from master passwd and group files Closes: Bug#108071,#87214 * Change mail homedirectory to /var/mail. Closes: Bug#95670 * Improve test for nscd presence. Hopefully Closes: Bug#95479 * Include section and priority in control file -- Wichert Akkerman Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:18:17 +0100 base-passwd (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Use a 8192 byte buffer for reading passwd and group entries. If someone has a group with over 8kb of group members we will still break (libc has no way to prevent that), but such a system will be so rate I doubt we will even run into it. Closes: Bug#51577,#51692,#69819 * Tell nscd to invalidate the user and group cache if we make any changes. Closes: Bug#51943 * Fix a typo in the update-passwd manpage. Closes: Bug#53857,#75791 * Don't create the msql user and group anymore by default. Closes: Bug#55878,#87213 * Don't create the dos user and group anymore by default. Closes: Bug#69485 * Note that tac-plus uses the static uid and gid 64005. Closes: Bug#63759 -- Wichert Akkerman Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:30:49 +0200 base-passwd (3.2.0) unstable; urgency=low * Update Standards-Version to 3.2.1 * Modify update-passwd to use seperate flag lists for users and groups * Actually honour noautoadd flag * Use asprintf so we are no longer bound by PATH_MAX limits. This has the unfortunate side effect of making update-passwd dependent on glibc. We'll deal with that when somebody files a bugreport. -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 15 Oct 2000 14:09:52 +0200 base-passwd (3.1.9) stable unstable; urgency=low * Fix typo: we run update-passwsd instead of uppdate-modules. Closes: Bug#73668,#74209 * Modify postinst to not output anything if we're not doing anything, and clarify the messages in case something does need to be done. Closes: Bug#74106 -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 8 Oct 2000 00:50:21 +0200 base-passwd (3.1.8) stable unstable; urgency=low * Leave a backup file for modified files. Closes: Bug#72916 * Update code to atomically replace a file to be more modular * Modified --dry-run output to only list modification instead of detailed actions. This makes the postinst output simpler. * Abort on errors in the postinst * Update texts in postinst to better explain what we are doing -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:58:59 +0200 base-passwd (3.1.7) unstable; urgency=low * Remove qmail accounts, but mark them as special in update-passwd so we don't automatically remove them * Reserve uids 64010-64016 and gid 64010 for qmail * Update README to reflect that we don't always reserve uid&gid pairs -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:41:55 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.6) unstable; urgency=high * Merge patches from Gordon Matzigkeit : + handle broken returnvalue for fget*ent_r from glibc2.0, Closes: #54120 + if lchown doesn't work also try chown, Closes: #54121 -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 7 Jan 2000 23:54:44 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.5) unstable; urgency=high * Fix an embarrasing error in copy_group -- Wichert Akkerman Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:35:54 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.4) unstable; urgency=low * Don't print an error if the shadow-file doens't exist -- Wichert Akkerman Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:23:01 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix typo in printf format in putgrent() * Don't override compilation options in debian/rules -- Wichert Akkerman Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:53:36 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium * Check gr_mem for NULL in our putgrent substitute -- Wichert Akkerman Wed, 1 Dec 1999 01:44:46 +0100 base-passwd (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Bump Standards-Version to 3.1.1 (nicely in sync with our own version :) * Add missing fallback-return for scan_users * Index special users by id instead of name so we can handle strangely named entries (like proftp'd anonftp or root-aliases) * Update the README -- Wichert Akkerman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:02:27 +0100 base-passwd (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium * autoconfed the source so we can detect systems without putgrent() and provide use our own implementation of putgrent * Don't abort if the shadow-file doesn't exist * Add new logic to make users special. Use this to remove the special cases for root and ftp and keep the homedirectory for www-data. * Update README to document new behaviour -- Wichert Akkerman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:59:34 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low * We no longer need to add the utmp-group manually in the postinst, update-passwd will do that for us. -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:57:15 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low * Fix slight error in postinst * Change the wording of messages in the postinst -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:49:34 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low * Make postinst smarted to check if changes should be made, and if so ask the user if he agrees. * Update the README -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:43:40 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.4) unstable; urgency=low * Add newline at the end of the usage information * Add video group with gid 44 * Reserve uid&gid for mysql, Closes: #28158 * Run update-passwd without --dry-run but with --verbose -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 29 Nov 1999 02:32:32 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.3) experimental; urgency=low * Handle NIS entries in group as well -- Wichert Akkerman Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:59:02 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.2) experimental; urgency=low * Set standards-version to 3.0.1 to make lintian silent * Pass description of what we are processing to process_(new|old)_entries * Set umask in put_file_in_place() so we can use it elsewhere as well -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:44:56 +0100 base-passwd (3.0.1) experimental; urgency=low * Don't attempt to lock when doing a dry run * Also copy the gid when we're copying a passwd-node * Set umask to 0077 before creating any files * Copy filemodes and ownership to new file -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 14 Nov 1999 04:22:49 +0100 base-passwd (3.0) experimental; urgency=low * Change homedirectory for man to /var/cache/man * Complete rewrite of update-passwd * Call update-passwd --dry-run in the postinst so people get a chance to check for bugs before we destroy their system -- Wichert Akkerman Sun, 14 Nov 1999 04:02:08 +0100 base-passwd (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low * Update location of GPL in copyright * Actually change maintainer in debian/control * Completely redid debian/rules * FHS * Use Pre-Depends instead of Depends -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:06:32 +0100 base-passwd (2.1) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer * Update versionnumber for no reason at all -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:42:10 +0100 base-passwd (2.0.3.5) unstable; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload * Fix homedirectory for postgres user, Closes: Bug# 47264 -- Wichert Akkerman Sat, 30 Oct 1999 14:05:32 +0200 base-passwd (2.0.3.4) unstable; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload * Add utmp group (gid 43) * Rename changelog to just `changelog' -- Wichert Akkerman Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:24:17 +0200 base-passwd (2.0.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=high * update-passwd.c (main): on --sanity-check exit both on failure *and* success (with an appropriate return value). * update-passwd.c (main): run sanity_check() unconditionally. * update-passwd.c (sanity_check): more descriptive error message. * README: correct location of master /etc/passwd and /etc/group. -- James Troup Fri, 22 May 1998 18:29:09 +0200 base-passwd (2.0.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer release. * debian/rules: swap binary-indep and binary-arch. [#20219, #20766] * update-passwd.8: refer to /usr/share/base-passwd/ not /usr/lib/base-passwd/. [#20917] * passwd.master: backup's home directory is /var/backups. [#20462] -- James Troup Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:07:45 +0200 base-passwd (2.0.3.1) unstable; urgency=HIGH * Emergency release; don't call update-passwd in postinst -- Galen Hazelwood Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:04:53 -0700 base-passwd (2.0.3) unstable; urgency=low * Added special hack to move ftp user out of slot 11 (#12826) * Moved into unstable (at last!) -- Galen Hazelwood Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:40:49 -0700 base-passwd (2.0.2) experimental; urgency=low * Removed dos uid/gid * Changed majordom's full name to "Majordomo" (#13766) * Fixed unbelievably stupid bug in update-passwd (#13765, #13862) -- Galen Hazelwood Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:15:58 -0600 base-passwd (2.0.1) experimental; urgency=low * Fixed gnats home directory (#11073, #12655) * update-passwd now enforces correct passwd/group file permissions * Moved master files to /usr/share/base-passwd -- Galen Hazelwood Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:19:30 -0600 base-passwd (2.0.0) experimental; urgency=low * New utility "update-passwd" to automatically handle passwd/group updates (#6502, #7792) * /etc/passwd and /etc/group are now detached from any package * Moved master files to /usr/lib/base-passwd -- Galen Hazelwood Sat, 6 Sep 1997 17:11:37 -0600 base-passwd (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=low * Added msql uid/gid (#12140) * Added one-line description (#10167) -- Galen Hazelwood Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:34:00 -0600 base-passwd (1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Added qmail uids/gid from Christian Hudon -- Galen Hazelwood Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:51:02 -0700 base-passwd (1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer * Fixed majordomo and postgres problems (fixes bugs #3002, #4295) * Removed entries above 99 (fixes bug #4849) * Fixed SmartList name (fixes bug #7838) * Added shadow group with gid 42 -- Galen Hazelwood Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:00:17 -0700 base-passwd (1.2.0-5) unstable; urgency=low * Changed UID for Gnats to 41, and added a Gnats group (GID 41) at the request of Brian C. White. -- Philippe Troin Thu, 16 Jan 1997 01:05:28 -0800 base-passwd (1.2.0-4) unstable; urgency=low * Changed the home directory for the list entry from /var to /var/list. -- Philippe Troin Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:35:33 -0800 base-passwd (1.2.0-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Removed the ftp entry from both passwd and group. * Removed the unnecessary users root for group root and nobody for group nogroup. * Added a UID and GID for `list' (ID 38) * Added a UID and GID for `irc' (ID 39) -- Philippe Troin Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:46:37 -0800 base-passwd (1.2.0-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Changed debian/rules not to use debmake. * Fixed the sudo entry in /etc/group. -- Philippe Troin Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:58:58 -0800 base-passwd (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial Release. -- Bruce Perens Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:38:10 -0800