Bug 257941 – gitosis-gentoo creation of git users from ebuild has git user account locked

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description jon R-B 2009-02-06 21:23:44 UTC]

gitosis-gentoo (possibly gitosis as well) creates a user "git" to allow push/pull of repo's

HOWEVER the user is disabled by default

/etc/shadows
git:!:14281:0:99999:7::: 

initial "git clone git@HOST:gitosis-admin.git" fails.
git clone git@fluidGit:gitosis-admin.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jrb/CODE/gitRepo/gitosis-admin/.git/
Permission denied (publickey).

entry in /var/log/auth.log
Feb  6 21:01:12 FluidServer sshd[19873]: User git not allowed because account is locked


changing the /etc/shadows entry to:
git:*:14281:0:99999:7::: 

Allows git user to function as expected

git clone git@fluidGit:gitosis-admin.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jrb/CODE/gitRepo/gitosis-admin/.git/
Enter passphrase for key '/home/jrb/.ssh/jrb@FluidServer_git': 
Receiving objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 5 (delta 0)



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 jon R-B 2009-02-06 21:57:44 UTC]

I mean:

* : User cannot login by password
! : User cannot login to the system

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2009-05-15 09:51:24 UTC]

There is no way to tell enewuser to not lock the user.
I added an information message instead.

[Comment 3 jon R-B 2009-05-15 13:43:12 UTC]

Thanks,

I have setup 3 gitosis systems and 2 of them I had to change the shadow entry so its not a hard and fast rule. 
I had a quick look in eutils w.r.t. enewuser and nothing sprang out 

an install message is probably the best thing