Bug 97905

Summary:	The /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files mismatch. The passwd contains many users that are not in the shadow
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	André Meirelles <andre>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description André Meirelles 2005-07-04 06:15:05 UTC

The stage3 I used has a mismatch of the users in /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd
files. The stage was downloaded from
http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.0/stages/i686/stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2
This is an official mirror in Brasil.
I don't know what consequences this can have on a system, but I know, this should
not happen.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just unpack the stage and take a look
2.
3.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-05 11:06:07 UTC

Actually, that is quite common and has exactly zero side-effects.  A shadow
entry is only required for a user that actually has a password set.