[Popcon-developers] Bug#820298: popularity-contest: Garbage E-Mail: UID must be less than 49999 (from pam)

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 09:52:23AM +0200, Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Version: 1.61
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > your cron.daily scripts does something like "su .... nobody".
> > Unfortunately some pam module outputs the UID warning.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Do you know the bug number for those bugs ?
> 
> > Although being a pam bug this causes a lot of garbage email from
> > popularity-contest.
> > 
> > Could you please modify popularity-contest to avoid this? 
> 
> It seems you are using stable and I cannot update stable... 

I forgot: I think this problem is fixed in popularity-contest 1.62
already, see bug #764369.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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