[Adduser-devel] Bug#316089: 3.66 ERROR persists: chage: can't open
shadow password fileadduser
Matthias Georg Imhof
mgi at vt.edu
Tue Aug 9 13:20:04 UTC 2005
I switched over to the new adduser 3.66, but still have the problem
Matthias
basalt:/usr/sbin# adduser --system --group --home /var/spool/exim4
--no-create-home --disabled-login --force-badname Debian-exim-test
chage: can't open shadow password filegroupdel: group Debian-exim-test does not
exist
basalt:/usr/sbin# adduser --system --no-create-home --disabled-login
--force-badname Debian-exim-test
Allowing use of questionable username.
Adding system user `Debian-exim-test'...
Adding new user `Debian-exim-test' (105) with group `nogroup'.
chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999
Debian-exim-test' returned error code 1. Aborting.
Cleaning up.
Removing user `Debian-exim-test'.
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