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Bug 601802 - =sys-apps/shadow-4.4 - useradd no longer respects the SHELL variable in /etc/default/useradd
Summary: =sys-apps/shadow-4.4 - useradd no longer respects the SHELL variable in /etc/...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
URL: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shado...
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Keywords: REGRESSION
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-12-06 09:37 UTC by Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2016-12-06 10:36 UTC (History)
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Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-12-06 09:37:49 UTC 
"man useradd" says the following about the -s switch:

           The name of the user's login shell. The default is to leave this
           field blank, which causes the system to select the default login
           shell specified by the SHELL variable in /etc/default/useradd, or
           an empty string by default.


Our /etc/default/useradd has a SHELL variable defined:

# useradd -D | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash

But the useradd from shadow-4.4 (unlike the version from shadow-4.2.1) no longer respects that:

# useradd -M testuser123
# getent passwd testuser123
testuser123:x:1005:1023::/home/testuser123:
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-12-06 10:36:25 UTC 
commit 6d77df88eaeaf655fe420153b0a77d931bdefa31
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 6 11:35:00 2016

    sys-apps/shadow: Fixed loading of defaults (bug #601802).

    Package-Manager: portage-2.3.3


This has already been fixed in the github repository, so I revbumped shadow-4.4 and added the fix.