| Summary: | app-admin/superadduser needs a new correct path to passwd | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Lance Albertson (RETIRED) <ramereth> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
oops, you're correct. actually, it's not needed as spanky now installs a symlink in /usr/bin to the real binary in ../../bin (remerge shadow after sync'ing). |
I think passwd's path recently got changed to /bin and it seems like superadduser's script isn't aware of that. Should be a simple fix, just change /usr/bin/passwd to /bin/passwd or have a check for that. Below is the output I encountered. Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []: /usr/sbin/superadduser: line 359: /usr/bin/passwd: No such file or directory * WARNING: An error occured while setting the password for this account. Please manually investigate this *