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On 16/01/19 12:59, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 12:20 +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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>> On 16/01/19 11:58, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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>>> How come portage isn't in shadow, only in passwd ? |
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>>> Seems wrong to me. |
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>>> |
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>>> Jocke |
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>> Because the portage user never logs on .. hence has no password. That said, |
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> That goes for evry other system account too but these are in shadow. |
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>> it does seem an odd situation, since even users with no password do tend to |
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>> appear in /etc/shadow .. perhaps it was/is never "properly" added as a user |
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>> .... |
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> I think/hope so. Now passwd looks like so: |
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> portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false |
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> This looks like a shadow account. Because of the missing entry passwd |
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> thinks this is a normal account: |
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> # > passwd -S portage |
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> portage P |
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> as opposed to: |
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> # > passwd -S daemon |
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> daemon L 10/28/1996 0 -1 -1 -1 |
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> Jocke |
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With the help of some devs, I have drilled this down to commit |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/baselayout.git/commit/share.Linux/shadow?id=5ee3c95d2086e626247640ca35cf2da78c4c9846 |
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in baselayout in 2016. |
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Some of my systems mysteriously (but predictably) are missing portage in |
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/etc/shadow as you describe, but these are prior to the baselayout change |
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above. Many have it as the commit suggests also. I suspect there may not |
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have been an upgrade path which added it between versions however, unless |
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it was pulled in via CONFIG_PROTECT somehow |
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Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521970 is also referenced in |
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that commit. |
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Hope that answers your question (and my curiosity!). |
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Regards, |
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veremitz/Michael. |
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