920818 – sys-apps/shadow-4.13-r4 Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory

Bug 920818 - sys-apps/shadow-4.13-r4 Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory

Summary: sys-apps/shadow-4.13-r4 Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2023-12-27 18:20 UTC by Esteve Varela Colominas
Modified:	2024-01-16 02:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Esteve Varela Colominas 2023-12-27 18:20:05 UTC

When running "useradd -m user" in a clean stage3 tarball, you get the following message:

    Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory

This is likely because MAIL_DIR is set to /var/spool/mail in /etc/login.defs, but the directory doesn't exist.

Comment 1 Esteve Varela Colominas 2023-12-27 18:30:27 UTC

I figure the proper solution would be making the directory in sys-apps/baselayout[build] or similar, or having shadow depend on a package that installs that directory, such as acct-user/mail