[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Question on proposed integration of MediaWiki 1.19.3 in wheezy

[Roland Mas]

Thorsten Glaser, 2012-12-12 17:36:02 +0100 :

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Dominik George wrote:
>
>> I'd really love to do that. Unfortunately, Alioth hasn't cared to update 
>> my SSH keys for the last 4 hours. I expected the cronjob to run at least 
>> every hour ...
>
> Huh. Normally, it runs every quarter hour in FusionForge.

  Hourly, actually (may be an Alioth specific, I don't remember).

> tg at wagner:/srv/home/users/natureshadow-guest/.ssh$ ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 259203 259203 4096 Dec 12 12:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 259203 259203 4096 Dec 12 12:02 ..
> tg at wagner:/srv/home/users/natureshadow-guest/.ssh$ id natureshadow-guest
> id: natureshadow-guest: No such user
>
> Now, this is funny.

  Fixed.

> tg at wagner:~$ getent group scm_pkg-mediawiki
> scm_pkg-mediawiki:x:80734:sgran,formorer,lolando,kibi,tfheen,bayle,toots,tg,duck,jmw,jandd
>
> I don’t understand this. Is there a limit on the length
> of usernames in NSS? natureshadow-guest has 22 chars…
> on the other hand, there’s pgsql missing _anyway_:
>
> tg at wagner:~$ fgrep passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf
> passwd:         compat db
>
> Now I’m puzzled, where *do* Alioth users come from?

  From the db part.  There's a pglistener that updates the db (as in
libnss-db) database when required, but sometimes it gets stuck and needs
a kick.  I gave it such a kick, the user account is active now, the SSH
key should follow at the next cron run.

Roland.
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